Word: papuan
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Melbourne to Darwin. Later, after donning a colonel's uniform, he led the building of 200 airstrips and airfields and scores of military roads and bridges. The landing fields on New Guinea were stamped out of jungle & tall grass by the bare feet of Sverdrup's loinclothed "Papuan Aviation Battalion," who were paid in tobacco and trinkets. After rising to brigadier, then major general, Sverdrup came back to Missouri to work harder than ever in peacetime. His firm designed a $30 million hydroelectric plant in Missouri, and helped build the world's largest oil-loading pier...