Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were fewer parked aircraft, and many loosed their bombs and bullets at inviting fixed targets: an aircraft factory and three engine plants. Along the waterfront were floating targets, choicest of all in Navy flyers' estimation: they sank a destroyer, two destroyer escorts, a freighter and many coastal craft; an escort carrier was fired and overturned...
...Chinese still controlled most of the coast south from Hangchow Bay. Last fortnight they enlarged their holdings when Chinese troops recaptured the coastal cities of Yamhsien and Limchow, taken by the Japanese last November. Another force reoccupied Siapu on the Fukien coast...
Friends. Many a West Coast citizen believed, with Dillon Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority, that the Japanese could resettle in coastal areas with little real difficulty. There were signs that most Pacific Coast citizens recognized the right of the Japanese to return and live in peace. Thousands more were warmly sympathetic toward the evacuees, indignant at the speeches against them...
...Washington's coastal White River valley, directors of an organization known as Remember Pearl Harbor League, Inc. ate a steak dinner, voted to boycott returning Japanese, listened with admiration to a member's opinion of Nisei in the U.S. Army: "They're all loyal to Hirohito...
...Costa Rica depends on coffee, calls the local coffee bean the "grain of gold." There is reason for this eulogy: the Costa Rican bean assays at 86% liquid coffee-making essence, as compared to the Brazilian bean's 29%. Costa Rica's politics revolve around coffee; the coastal banana has only secondary political influence...