Word: calcutta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ruler's heart than two. The Maharaja complied, then issued a ringing challenge: Manipur would resist the Jap to the last man. The young men of Manipur, busy dancing and throwing crimson and purple powder on one another, paused. Wedged between India and Burma, 400 miles northeast of Calcutta, 200 northwest of Mandalay and just south of the realm of Bong Wong, the Ang of Namsang. Manipur has one smooth, green valley, 50 miles long. The rest is towering, jungle-covered mountains. Lakes dot the Imphal Valley and ducks dot the lakes. British officers, stationed in India, have long...
...Chicago to New Delhi. There the Army puts the plates on the presses of the famous Hindustan Times (published by Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third son). As fast as copies come off the press Army transport planes rush them west to Karachi, south to Agra, east to Calcutta and on to our airfields in Assam. There some of the copies are piled into Army trucks bound for the new Ledo Road that American boys are building across Burma into China. Others are loaded into little Army liaison planes, flown over the jungles and dropped by parachute to servicemen...
Said Food Secretary R. H. Hutchings: "Bengal now has ample food. . . ." Added Calcutta officials: "Famine mortality is now down to 30 per day." By last week it was beyond dispute that Viceroy Wavell had done a good eleventh-hour job on an almost hopelessly bungled situation. He had brought an old soldier's efficiency to bear in the distribution of foods among the starving...
...Bengal's capital, Calcutta, thousands are still dying of hunger. Grim, hardworking men of Auchinleck's Army, aided by official and private agencies, belatedly distribute what food they can get. It does not add up to much-half a pound of grain per mouth per day. Many thousands of Indians, because of debility and disease, are beyond such help. But last week an improvement was noticed: famine deaths in Calcutta had fallen from over 200 to about 100 daily...
Famine gripped large areas of India (TIME, Oct. 18). Three days after his inauguration, Field Marshal Lord Wavell announced that he would visit hunger-plagued Calcutta, where whole families were dying on the streets. The Bengal Government was one of several provincial Governments which had dallied at commandeering rice crops and stocks, and distributing them to the hungry. Lord Wavell has the power to do so for all of India, and the Central Government has already threatened to override dilatory provincial authorities if necessary. But, even with the utmost vigor on his part, a solution will be difficult...