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Later in the day Tahiti's word-of-mouth "coconut radio" carried conflicting rumors that General Brunot had been assassinated, that he had effected some sort of coup, that somewhere among the swaying palms there had been general slaughter...
...announced to go on April 18, on the 166th anniversary of U.S. history's most famous ride. But it was not till the following week that piccolos squealed Yankee Doodle over the Berlin short-wave and a sound-effects man clopped coconut shells in simulation of furious galloping. Then, under the name of Paul Revere, "an unknown American of Pilgrim ancestry" took to the air and began in English to gabble for Goebbels...
...were the strategic and critical materials (rubber, tin, etc.), plus such secondary or civilian musts as leather, wool, zinc, copper, quinine, coffee, sugar, cocoa. On the nonessential list were frillier items which the U. S. imported to the amount of $200,000,000 last year: spices, wine, tea, furs, coconut oil, palm oil, fibres and burlap. By rationing shipping space just as machine tools and aluminum already are being rationed (TIME, March 10), the U. S. hoped to make every ship that still sails the seas work at 100% efficiency for defense...
...clock one morning last week catastrophe struck Guam. Roaring out of the typhoon belt, a big wind sheared overland at 110 miles an hour, wiped out the banana crop. 90% of the coconut crop, all garden crops-chief livelihood of some 20,000 natives-smashed the Pan American Hotel and U. S. Navy hangar, left 40 American families and 15,000 natives homeless. When it was over, Governor McMillin called for Red Cross aid. First reports indicated that the typhoon approached the scale of the great blow of 1900. But that storm cost 20 lives; last week's, none...
...reforms him. In four days, with the help of coconut milk and Koko (her trained chimpanzee), Miss Lamour has Mr. Preston totally abstaining in a brightly flowered breechclout. In addition, Typhoon provides a submarine full of mutineers which dives with open hatches, a yacht load of visiting Polynesian pirates, a raging jungle fire that is quenched by a super-colossal tidal wave...