Word: overlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Axis had two other pressure weapons. One was economic strangulation. Switzerland's main economic life line, through the Mediterranean and north Italy, had become a very thin thread susceptible to being pinched off at half a dozen points. Her secondary life line, overland from Lisbon through France, could be cut at any moment. Finally, with troops on every frontier, the Germans had the weapon of military invasion...
...River between Mexico and Guatemala makes it possible to move freight between the two countries without benefit of tiny barges poled by leisurely boatmen. By next May, when the Central American links of the Inter-American Highway are scheduled to be completed, there will at last be a continuous overland route from the U.S. to the Canal Zone. Mexico's spindly transportation system will then funnel a vastly greater flow of traffic...
...overland "assault" across New Guinea's mountains consisted of a handful of troops, as the Australians found when they chased them back over the steep peaks and through the steaming jungles. In all New Guinea, which is bigger than Texas, it is estimated that there are not more than 20,000 Japs. General MacArthur has enough men to retake New Guinea, but offensives risk ships and the prize may not be worth the cost...
...seaborne Jap attack on the defenders of Port Moresby might be attempted to aid the overland attack. Even while Jap troops squirmed through the jungles, Jap warships slipped into Milne Bay and shelled that hard-held Allied position on the tip of New Guinea. Milne Bay reported only last week that the remnants of the recent Jap landing expedition there had finally been mopped up (no prisoners were taken...
...Little Willys-Overland was so broke before the war that it paid no preferred dividends in eight of the ten years ended 1941. But now things are better and it has bought 34,300 shares of its $10 par preferred since May. Prices paid...