Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last 3,000 Japanese survivors were trapped on Cape Esperance on the northwest tip. For months the Americans had been fighting slowly up along the northern coast from Henderson Field 25 miles away. Last week a strong body of U.S. troops suddenly showed itself in "a strong position" near the little Melanesian Mission station of Marovovo on the opposite shore. How they got there was not explained. If by land, they would have had to march overland more than 40 miles, through the harshest kind of mountains and jungle. It was possible they had come by sea, in the transports...
...cold wind whipped down the valley. The spotlights on the cranes picked out the jagged chunks of ice floating down the muddy Mississippi. At a lonely spot below Cape Girardeau, Mo. there was important work to be done. It was 4 a.m., but time and the weather mattered little. As the creaking cranes slowly dropped a huge tube of steel through the water down to the soggy river bed, a shout went up. The job was done...
...Road is long. It would zigzag from Cape Henry, Va. to Dayton, Ohio, to Paducah, Ky., to St. Joe, Mo. Along its length it is littered with the broken materiel of war and the stiff, broken bodies of German and Italian dead...
Died. Whitney Warren, 78, architect (Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, the Ritz, Biltmore, Vanderbilt, Commodore Hotels, the reconstructed Louvain Library in Belgium), fancy-dressing individualist (he favored a cutaway, blue shirt, white waistcoat, flowing white tie, broad-brimmed hat, cape); in Manhattan. He founded New York's Society of Beaux Arts Architects, originated the famed Beaux Arts Balls. When he had finished reconstructing the Louvain Library he wanted on its balustrade the inscription Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Generosity"), but pacifist groups killed the plan. In 1940 Teuton fury destroyed...
Coldly calculating U.S. insurance underwriters view the situation "with increasing pessimism." Rates quoted for cargoes tell their own eloquent story: for the transatlantic passage to west coast British ports, 10%; for passage to India via the Cape of Good Hope, 20%. In contrast are rates on shipping from the West Coast to Hawaii, where sinkings have been rare: 1½%. British civilians last week were warned to expect short rations, prepare themselves for a grim year...