Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting itself out on a creaky limb. If Russia were suddenly to go down before the Nazis, just as the U.S. Army was well broken up, Congress would be in a fix much worse than mere embarrassment. Hitler would then have all of Europe and a big chunk of Asia. And the U.S. would be armed only with the tongues of its Congressmen...
Because the U.S. is no more self-sufficient in giraffes, kangaroos and tapirs than it is in silk and tin, U.S. zoomen were greatly worried last week. Animal importations from Africa and Asia have dwindled with war's spread, now threaten to stop completely. Even South American animals are held up by lack of cargo space...
Japanese-held East Asia, however, is virtually unblessed with petroleum. Almost every drum of gas and gallon of oil that Japan burns in her tanks, planes and other empire-building machinery must be imported. Biggest source of supply, outside of the U.S., is The Netherlands Indies, with whom Japan last year contracted for an annual supply of 1,800,000 tons...
...Philippines, he will carry a lot of weight in Far East conferences, in which he has long sat with such key figures as Admiral Thomas Hart, Commander of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Commander in Chief of the British Forces in East Asia...
...Tokyo stockmarket collapsed in a near-panic this week. But Finance Minister Masatsune Ogura betrayed no alarm. He said that Japan's answer to the democratic gun would be to "push ahead" with its plans for imperial self-sufficiency in Asia-or, as he called it, a "Greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere." Theoretically, the conquest of the South China Sea would give Japan almost all the raw materials she needs. But actually, it would...