Word: archipelagos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invade you it will only be to teach you that you are not occidentals." As Mr. Quezon well knows, Japan would not even have to make a military invasion. Quezon's islands would drop like ripe fruit. Japanese farmers already have a strong foothold in the archipelago, and Philippine independence would mean the end of a U. S. market which has absorbed 85% of Philippine products. Recently Quezon had his Assembly pass an immigration law, aimed at Japanese infiltration, limiting the quota of every country to 500 a year. Commenting on this law, a Japanese Foreign Office spokesman said...
...prestige of the new post. The businesslike Times pointed out that the governorship will become increasingly important (with the eventual disposition of the French West Indies yet to be decided and U. S. good will to be courted). The Daily Mail concentrated on the recreational facilities of the archipelago, described the Bahamas as "isles of pirate gold" and the playground of rich Americans...
Pele, goddess of volcanoes, was on a house-hunting expedition when she hovered one day over the Hawaiian archipelago. There, according to legend, she found her fancy, settled in the fiery crater of Kilauea, near mighty Mauna...