Word: gan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left Osaka with two engines severely damaged; the crew bailed out near Sofu Gan, 350 miles off the Japanese coast. Three planes (two PBYs, a B17) which were near by to spot such trouble marked the survivors' area with smoke bombs. The survivors opened their dye markers, which colored the water green around each man. The B-17 "Dumbo"* dropped a 1½-ton, two-engined Higgins boat by parachute. Two men crawled into the boat, picked up the other survivors. The Dumbo radioed a submarine, which reached the Higgins boat next morning. One man was lost: the flight...
...apparent inability to straighten out his star pitcher, Bill Voiselle, who be gan by winning eight straight and then lost six in a row, is a case in point. After being twice knocked out of the box, Voiselle was leading the Cardinals 3-to-1, with two out in the ninth, when a 53-minute rain interrupted proceedings. Instead of putting in a game-saver for the thoroughly cooled-out Voiselle, Ott left him in, and the Cardinals won the game. Afterwards, Ott fined Voiselle $500 for not wasting an out side pitch after getting a 2-0 count...
Among other things, the interview was not exclusive : Cecil Dickson of the Gan nett newspapers was along; so was Vice Minister of Information Hollington Tong, who pointed out, with Chinese courtesy, that Taylor must have suffered from a "misunderstanding." U.S. Ambassador Pat Hurley was not so gentle. Said...
Target: Roadbeds. On the map of battle, Tokyo's first objective now be gan to assume shape: full control of the Peiping-Hankow railway. In 1938, the Chinese breached the Yellow river dikes, kept the enemy from this prize; last week, Japanese columns driving from north and south seemed to be close to attaining...
...busy day for King George VI. In rapid succession he received Field Marshal Smuts, the new Portuguese Ambassador, Ernest Bevin, Sir Alexander Cadogan (pronounced Ka-dug´-gan). But one of the longest audiences of the day was reserved for the sharp-eyed, thin-lipped commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain, Texas-born Ira Clarence Eaker...