Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bengal has only 6,000 hospital beds for its 50,000,000 people...
...Nearly half of the districts and three-quarters of the municipalities have no qualified health officers. Of 116 second-class Bengal municipalities, only 27 have a full-time health officer, 28 have not even a sanitary inspector, and eleven have no vaccinator...
...India's No. 1 political figure during the suppression of the Congress party, shouted his battle cry of Pakistan. Behind him, huge maps indicated that Pakistan (a separate Moslem state) took in all three North Western provinces and vaulted over the huge United Provinces and Bihar to include Bengal and Assam in the northeast. This was the most ambitious claim to territories since Jinnah had first espoused Pakistan as a slogan to bargain against Hindu political domination. The directed cheers of his party and the pandal (huge tent) bright with Pakistan banners (see cut) heartened...
...main British objective was to retake Akyab, the small seaport on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. It failed for several reasons...
Back in the U.S. last week were the combat crews-28 officers and 81 enlisted men-of a heavy bombardment squadron that called itself, not without reason, the "Bastard 513th." It was never formed; it just fused in the fire of war. Sometimes it called itself the "Bengal Bombers," sometimes "Major Toomey's Flying Circus," but mostly "us bastards." Not until a year after Pearl Harbor did the War Department give it a numerical designation. Meanwhile it had set some astonishing records in more than a year of war without relief...