Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Primarily the Ledo Road will be a supply line for Allied troops when the widely heralded Burma campaign finally gets under way. Secondarily, when the Japs are cleaned out, it will serve as a link between the supply routes of India and the old Burma Road to China. Before the Welcome-to-Burma sign stands another fingerpost erected by the Hairy Ears. This one reads: "To Tokyo...
...year before. Imperial Oil Ltd. -Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) subsidiary- had sent young Theodore Augustus Link, fresh out of the University of Chicago, to sound out the possibilities. Lanky Dr. Link made his surveys, waited over the winter, after the ice left set out on Great Slave Lake with a motorboat, two scows overloaded with supplies, drill crews and an ox named "Nig." Eventually, after the ox had hauled the rig into position, the drillers...
...missing link in synthetic rubber- a good, plentiful substitute for rubber in inner tubes-appeared last week to have been found. U.S. synthetic rubbers or soft plastics have been developed to do almost every other job that natural rubber can do. Last week aircraft manufacturer Glenn L. Martin announced that his research men had developed a new plastic which makes better inner tubes than nat ural rubber ever...
...operation, commanded by General Douglas MacArthur riding in a Flying Fortress, closed the last link in a trap around the Jap in the areas of Lae and Salamaua. The day before, Australians landing on the beach above Lae had shut off escape in that direction. Allied light naval craft guarded the sea approaches, sinking Jap barges that tried to sneak in with supplies and reinforcements...
...kind of mystical blend. Hope was funny, treating hordes of soldiers to roars of laughter. He was friendly-ate with servicemen, drank with them, read their doggerel, listened to their songs. He was indefatigable, running himself ragged with five, six, seven shows a day. He was figurative-the straight link with home, the radio voice that for years had filled the living room and that in foreign parts called up its image. Hence boys whom Hope might entertain for an hour awaited him for weeks. And when he came, anonymous guys who had had no other recognition felt personally remembered...