Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bergh was granted police powers by New York State authorities, soon became the terror of all horse drivers. He would go into battle in a high silk hat, waxed moustaches, gleaming gold scarf pin, yellow kid gloves, Prince Albert coat. When he pointed his accusing cane, police would drag an offending driver from his seat, haul him into court. If drivers argued, Bergh often knocked their heads together with his own well-manicured hands...
...Tokyo correspondent of the two most formidably restrained newspapers in the world, the London Times and the New York Times, Hugh Byas could afford not to be a hawker of sensations. In late years it was a rare sight to see the red-faced Scot walk with his heavy cane into the lobby of the Imperial Hotel and sit down with the rumor factors there. He never rushed down to Yokohama to find a friend in the saloon of a luxury liner and ask him to smuggle out an item that would burn up the mails. He always quoted sources...
...members of the Guadalcanal Press Club had seen and experienced more tough combat than any U.S. correspondents in World War II. Reporters on Bataan could recuperate in the rock caverns of Corregidor. On Guadalcanal, reporters' protection consisted solely of the fighting marines. Unlike many of their whip-corded, cane-carrying, limousine-borne forebears of World War I, Guadalcanal newspapermen literally become "fighting correspondents...
...acre Philippine sugar-cane industry, deprived of its U.S. market and unable to compete with The Netherlands East Indies, Indo-China and Formosa, appeared to be doomed. To support 3,000,000 sugar workers, Japan was frantically trying to make headway with a five-year cotton-growing plan...
...allows the patient to walk gently on his broken leg in about two weeks; to put his whole weight on it, without cane or crutch, in three weeks. > Thus it prevents the muscular atrophy and stiffening of the joints which commonly result from a plaster cast...