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...Pacific Clipper was outward bound from San Francisco, flying from New Caledonia to Auckland, when a coded message told them of the Japanese war. The skipper, Captain Robert Ford, signaled Auckland for "all clear"; then silenced the ship's transmitter, changed course and altitude, made new tracks for Auckland...
Chrome. One-third of U.S. consumption of 800,000 tons a year comes from the Philippines and New Caledonia. Present stockpile is 400,000 tons. Smaller quantities come from Cuba and Africa, but not enough...
...Caledonia the Brothers Fahnestock spent a day getting ready to record songs by a particularly promising pair of natives. Finally the natives sang their piece: Oo-Wah, Oo-Wah, over & over. That was all they knew...
...also short. . . . The U.S. has little more than a thimbleful of high-grade chromite deposits from which to make ferrochrome, the master alloy in stainless and chrome steels. Supplies depend on the sea lanes and tons of chromite are already piling up in Rhodesia and New Caledonia for lack of ships. . . . The Government's Metals Reserve Company, belatedly building a stockpile, had 422,000 tons on order, only 31,700 tons delivered...
Congo. That was last August. Soon other colonies followed: the five dots of French territory in India; in the Pacific, New Caledonia, Tahiti, the Gambier Islands, Tuamotu, the Marquesas and Austral Islands...