Word: curacao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami's 36th Street airport, a K.L.M. Lockheed Super-Electra landed ten passengers, 25,000 first-flight "covers" for stamp collectors, eight hours and 44 minutes after taking off from Curacao. It was the first scheduled Caribbean-U.S. flight ever made by a commercial plane that did not belong to Pan American Airways...
Almost as annoying to the Nazis as the Beggars' lethal pranks is the uncompromising stiff-neckedness of all Hollanders. Typical of the Dutch attitude was the banquet given for the Germans by the Burgomaster of Breda, Barthelomeus W. Th. van Slobbe, onetime Governor of Curacao and a student of history. Compelled to throw an official party for the invaders, Van Slobbe served up a curious meal, topped it off with a flowery archaistic speech. Next day the Germans found he had copied menu and oratory verbatim from a similar occasion after the French conquered Breda...
...which destroyers, cruisers and patrol bombers could operate as soon as field repair facilities and oil-fuel supplies had been laid down. At the western foot of the Lesser Antilles, at Aruba in The Netherlands West Indies, is the world's largest oil refinery. At The Netherlands' Curacao near by are good commercial docks and workshops, an ample supply of fuel. Here, in the most valuable and most vulnerable area of the Caribbean, is the first outpost of the U. S.'s maritime frontier...