Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blanket Ban. The Immigration Act of 1924 banned all Oriental immigration. What particularly humiliates the Chinese is that, among all Orientals, including Japs, they alone are specifically singled out by name in U.S. law as undesirable citizens. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the result of a California labor surplus (thousands of coolies helped build the U.S. railroads). But the Act, long obsolete, is still on the books...
California's 73-year-old Amadeo Peter Giannini is probably the world's most ardent exponent of branch banking. His huge Bank of America, fourth largest bank in the U.S., is an agglomerate of 30 years of Giannini acquisitions. Its 487 branches blanket the state of California. Its parent company, Transamerica Corp. (whose stock is so popular with California Italians that it sometimes accounts for almost half the trading on the San Francisco Stock Exchange), owns a majority interest in 23 other West Coast banks, plus a juicy 8.7% of Manhattan's National City Bank...
...freighter pilots fly along the Alaska highway, past Whitehorse to Fairbanks; its delivery flyers whip fighters and bombers close to Bering Strait to be turned over to Russia for the eastern front. Freighters, and bombers on the way to combat, cross central Canada to Greenland, Iceland, Britain. They blanket the Caribbean and sweep across Mexico. They fly down both sides of South America...
...foundry wedges for aircraft parts every week; in New Jersey a J.A. pool (which includes the Intricate Trinkets Co.) is making shipping blocks to protect aircraft pumps in transit. And in Pittsburgh the Sesame Specialty Co. (all girls) is looking for foreign business: they have an incendiary bomb blanket already approved by the U.S. Bureau of Mines...
...Ahead was a projected itinerary that most reporters dream about. Lee hopes some day to roll into Nanking with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, into Manila with General Douglas MacArthur, and down the main street of Tokyo with Admiral Halsey and his sailors, Major General Vandegrift and his marines, under a blanket of U.S. planes "so thick that they hide the rising...