Word: overlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desert, British and Italian tanks and armored cars scuttled in and out of the oases, "islands of the blessed," in the modern version of Lawrence of Arabia's strike-and-run stratagem with camel raiders. The British kept a lookout for an overland thrust southeast across the ancient caravan trails to Cairo or Khartoum. Having once accomplished the impossible, in forced marches and road building in Ethiopia, it was not inconceivable that Italy might pit her legions against both nature and the British, in a gamble to sever the British Empire's jugular...
...problem is largely naval. Overland routes through this whole territory are utterly impassable. Formidable mountain ranges tumble down from the Himalayas. Thick jungles, swampy lowlands, torrential rivers, horrible rains, clouds of malarial mosquitoes-all make land attack out of the question. Furthermore, the problem narrows down for practical purposes to one of covering distances between naval bases (marked on the map by the flags of the nations to which they belong) and storming of a handful of coastal towns: Balikpapan, Tarakan, Batavia, Surabaya, Macassar, Singapore and a few others...
...work for Buick at half the pay. Two-fisted, paternal Tycoon Chrysler drove himself and his men, thought "the one reasonably sure way to get ahead was to do just a little bit more than was expected of you." Two salvage jobs he did on moribund companies-Willys-Overland and Maxwell Motor Corp.-led to the birth of Chrysler Corp., which boomed even in the depression. In 1933 Chrysler outproduced Ford for the first time; same year Chrysler stock multiplied seven times in value...
...Italy is really going to fight Great Britain for supremacy in Africa, she must launch an overland campaign to take Alexandria. Main base for this attack must be Libya, where, since Air Marshal Italo Balbo's death,* fire-eating Marshal Rodolfo Graziani has been getting ready. (Onset of the rainy season in Ethiopia had slowed up preparations for a supplementary attack northward up the Nile tributaries from the Sudan border...
...German relief column proceeding northward overland from Namsos last week was 118 miles southwest of Narvik at Bodo (pop. 6,000), which German air bombs completely incinerated. There a Norse force and a few British survivors still blocked the way. Allied warships said they sank seven German transports trying to bring Bull Dietl reinforcements...