Word: canings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suffered from the white man's old shortcoming-of not being able to tell one yellow man from another, nor-the loyal from the disloyal. It was an overwhelming problem. For the Japs were everywhere-behind shop counters in Honolulu, serving as gardeners on almost every island, cutting cane on all plantations, fishing off the coasts. Many of them were working on defense projects, many, as members of the Hawaiian Territorial Guard, were watching over power plants, parading in front of public buildings. The uniforms they wore were those of the U.S. Army, and only an arm badge, marked...
...designed to relieve not only a looming smokeless powder shortage, but the sugar scare (see p. 70). Most ethyl alcohol is normally made from molasses, a by-product of sugar. To increase their production, however, the regular alcohol makers have recently been using not just blackstrap molasses but whole cane syrup (high-test molasses), thus cutting into the sugar supply...
Japanese submarines shelled three islands of the Hawaiian chain one night last week. They damaged a small shed, set fire to a cane field. Questioned at a press conference aboard a submarine about U.S. Navy counteroperations, island-wise, white-thatched Admiral Chester W. Nimitz answered in island slang: "Hoomanawanui" (Let time take care of the situation...
Latest organization in Washington is The Wafflebottom Club, so named because its businessmen members wait long hours on cane-seated chairs in Government anterooms. (World War I also saw waffle-bottoms...
...colored houses along Kahului's waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage...