Word: overland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left for their nuisance value. In the rest of Southeast Asia were at least five more Jap divisions, plus brigades of garrison troops. The enemy was not ready to abandon Southeast Asia. In China he was busy tearing up spur lines to get ties and rails for completing the overland route to Indo-China. The only purpose of this line, if it is ever opened, would be to drag out resistance in the vast peninsula...
Walker's words flashed across 7,000 miles of ocean via U.S. Army Signal Corps circuits to San Francisco. And there the monitors of the Blue Network picked them up-recorded them-wrote them down-and wired them east by fast overland telegraph-to reach TIME'S editors in New York in less than an hour's time...
...supply its Kwantung Army in Manchuria and its growing legions in China, Japan has begun to lean more heavily upon its steel industry in Manchuria. Blast furnaces there are closer to the source of coking coal, and the finished products can be shipped overland to the armies, easing the burden on the Japs' overtaxed, dwindling ship tonnage. Greatest of the steel works in Manchuria is at Anshan...
Cost of the Loss. If the Japanese take Kweilin, they will: 1) deprive free China of the rice, manufactures and other resources which come from the southern coast provinces; 2) win the chance to open an overland route to Indo China; 3) cut off the U.S. air force in China from the bases whence it has raided Japanese shipping and supported the now almost exhausted Chinese armies behind the coast...
Leading the team from the tailback spot will be Ed Navin, flashy runner and pass-heaver. In the Saturday scrimmage, Navin accounted for the afternoon's only score almost single-handedly. He passed his squad down to the 15 yard stripe and drove it overland from there to the one on two plays, after which Bill Jenkins took it across...