Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite their experience in the Solomons, the Japs were forced to start running "Tokyo Express" flotillas of destroyers, sometimes with cruisers, down the Spice Islands into Geelvink Bay, between the Schoutens and New Guinea's mainland. Whether they were for reinforcement or for evacuation, Allied flyers could not tell. But they attacked them anyway, sank five destroyers, routed four sections of the express. Biak got no help...
...Women's war activities, either in uniform or in overalls, are not necessarily signs of aggressiveness or masculinity. Instead they may express woman's passiveness and masochism, or merely her passive acceptance of the general mood of the times. To some women the uniform is a welcome protection against social prejudices...
This meant that despite a phenomenal 90% passenger load, record air express cargoes, and higher gross incomes, the industry was barely hedgehopping over the financial woods. TWA crash-landed in the red, losing $92,420 ($357,352 profit last year). Pennsylvania-Central and Western Air Lines lost $77,682 and $17,565 respectively. American, its net down 47%, still cleared the trees by $597,796. Well-managed United fared best, settling down to a $1,110,083 profit-almost as good...
...newspaper for the Pacific theater was being planned by the U.S. Army last week. Its forward-looking name: Tokyo Express. Thus far U.S. forces in the Pacific have had no service journal comparable to Stars & Stripes. Plans for the new paper include 100,000 copies daily and final editions published in the Japanese capital. The exact date of the first edition depends on anticipated Pacific successes...
Later Dr. Coffin explained his bluntness: "This was my swan song, so I could say what I pleased." Asked if a new moderator could not express himself similarly, he retorted: "Oh, yes. But the number of brethren who pussyfoot is large. What...