Word: bengals
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...know. The little blacks had just seen the British leave the Officers' Club and its lovely promenade on Ross Island in Port Blair's harbor, the weather station and the stores in Port Blair itself, and sail off to India across the Bay of Bengal...
...Indian penal center in Port Blair had abandoned the Andamans to the Japs. Ready for plucking were the 204 big & little Andamans and the adjoining Nicobar Islands, which curve between Burma's central coast and the northern tip of Sumatra, locking a gateway to the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean...
...main advances, but in the hot season the smaller rivers are dry, and detachments could be sent west without much trouble. One force crossed the vein-like little streams that slice up lower Burma and reached Bassein, just over the coastal hills from the Bay of Bengal...
...bagged in burlap; so are cotton, wool, fertilizers, chemicals, countless industrial products. In wartime it is also needed for sandbags and camouflage fabrics. As raw jute, or as manufactured burlap, 99% of it originates in India, and 85% of that comes from around the steaming Ganges Delta in Bengal Province. In no other part of the world where acceptable jute can be grown has labor been persuaded to process it, for jute must soak in stagnant water, must be hand-worked by natives who wade waist-deep in the stinking mess...
...same afternoon the Jayvees finished an undefeated season, as did the Freshmen, and in the Junior Varsity race the Crimson thirds placed second, well in front of the Tech and Princeton Jayvees in an exhibition which one humiliated Bengal was heard to term a "blatant display of excess power...