Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matsuyama. Kindhearted G.I.s brought the Spanish missionary food and clothing. One lieutenant from the Engineers rounded up a few volunteers, built a hut from scrap lumber and installed a makeshift stove. From somewhere an Army cot and blankets for the nuns appeared. Best of all, a few bags of Australian flour were produced. . . . Father Perez faced the winter with confidence...
Sparkplug of UNRRA's present spurt was the Royal Australian Navy's fast-talking, reddish-haired R.G.A. Jackson. He had organized Malta's submarine supply line during the island's blitz. Later, as head of the Middle East Supply Center at Cairo, he had directed the imports of 20 countries. When Herbert Lehman made him senior deputy director of UNRRA, Jackson was given a job bigger but not much different from the one at Malta...
Last week, for gallantry and allergy, Koigi won the Australian Army's Loyal Service Medal...
...rest had a new leader. He was William E. Warren, a 32-year-old newcomer to the I.L.A., and by the excited account of the Ryan crowd, a man who thought the A.F. of L. longshoremen could get a lot more out of life by joining the C.I.O. and Australian-born Harry Bridges' West Coast stevedores...
...Western Pacific fleet was annihilated under command of a Dutch admiral, while the principal squadron of three American and two Australian heavy cruisers, to protect the landing at Guadalcanal, was surprised and sunk under the British Admiral Crutchley...