Word: macadamization
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...campaign that few thought would succeed. He had about two divisions of American-trained Chinese and a group of American and Chinese guerrilla fighters led by Brigadier General Frank Merrill. As Stilwell fought his way southeast through rugged country and equally rugged Japanese, engineers followed close behind, building a macadam highway...
...best experiences I've had in the army," he declares... Seigle has been in khaki more than two year, since April 2, 1941... During his first month he spent much of his time breaking up an abandoned macadam road down in Ft. Eustis, Va... "I don't know what the army did with the pieces of that road," he smiles, "but I learned how to swing a pick...
Italian Blessings. Brutal in conquest, the Italians were energetic imperialists. Their engineers, with sweating soldier-workmen and native labor, blasted, graded, bridged and finally smoothed 4,340 miles of asphalt and macadam highway over Ethiopia's desert areas, muddy lowlands, rolling valleys, deep ravines and high, broad plateaus. Some 10,000 miles of lesser roads were opened...
Laborers worked night & day on the stone and macadam highway along the coast. A railroad to Tobruk carried some of the load after engineers restored it. Ships edged along the shore. Rush orders had to be carried by giant transport planes. Supply trucks, given priority, frequently moved ahead of all but the very advanced troops. One story was told of a bakery unit dashing into Matrûh, where a German officer stepped forth and growled: "You arrived too soon...
...Power & Glory. Wherever there isn't German wreckage in the Western Desert there are British camps. From an airplane the whole of the desert looks like one great tourist camp amid thousands of square miles of wreckage. Cutting through it all is a single band of macadam, alive with vehicles moving westward...