Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA--Australian troops, pushing northward through New Guinea without Japanese opposition, Shave penetrated the 6,170-foot high Owen Stanley mountain gap to the point where it drops downhill toward the Japanese base at Kokoda, front dispatches said tonight...
Said Anthony Eden, the entire Balkans would burst into revolt "at the appointed hour." In Sofia cellars and in Serbian mountain passes many wondered who would appoint the hour, and when it would come...
...York Times's military analyst, Hanson Baldwin, who flew from the U.S. to the Solomons to look for himself, aptly described the Jap attack on the Marines as one prong of a three-pronged offensive. A second prong was feeling its way down the "impassable" Owen Stanley Mountain Range...
...Rainier, miles away from regular mess facilities, mountain troops lived on Ration K for days, came through fit as fiddles. At Indio, Calif., where the temperature ran as high as 122° in the shade, a five-day trial gave equally nourishing results. The menu was surprisingly varied. Breakfast consisted of enriched biscuits, compressed graham crackers, veal luncheon meat, fruit bar, malted milk dextrose tablets, soluble coffee, sugar, chewing gum, four cigarets. Dinner was much the same, with the addition of powdered bouillon-but without coffee or fruit bar. Supper: biscuits, cheese, fruit-juice powder, chocolate bar, sugar, chewing...
...zero gale was driving needle-sharp snow over Elk Mountain against the tiny station, piling drifts over the main line to Parco. Traffic had stopped. Outside, almost buried, were a giant mallet locomotive and a mountain snowplow. U.P. General Manager William Martin Jeffers was telling the men he knew the job was dangerous but it had to be done. Not one to give an order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes...