Word: gon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of the Pacific Northwest, public power is nothing new. Seattle has had a municipal utility since 1905, and some other towns in Washington and Ore gon have had them even longer. But behind these scattered outposts lies a web of big private systems, covering a far wider area than the famed British grid. Eleven of them have combined assets of well over $400,000,000. But compared with Grand Coulee and Bonneville, the Northwest's private power resources are minuscule. When they reach their combined ultimate capacity of 2,438,400 kilowatts, the Bonneville Power Administration (which administers...
...probably in March or April. Japanese officers and merchants were securing houses in Hanoï on three-year leases "in the name of the Emperor" and forbidding Frenchmen to use the sidewalk in front of them. Even as Indo-China fought Thailand, Japanese commercial planes flew from Saïgon to Bangkok carrying agents and supplies. The Japanese fifth column which had worked effectively in the north had moved on to Saïgon in the south...
...French Indo-China Japan was reported to have served up a fresh set of demands, including control of Saïgon, further bases in the Gulf of Tongkin and along the South China Sea coast, Indo-China's entire exportable surplus of rubber, tin, rice, lead, zinc and tungsten. These would give Japan a new source of supplies with which to resist a blockade, would put her in a position to harass the British at Singapore and the U. S. at Manila...
...that Japan was gravely concerned over "increasing activity of anti-Japanese elements" in southern Indo-China. " 'Free Frenchmen' . . . Anglo-American agents . . . Jewish financiers have resumed activities prejudicial to the New Order." The Japanese professed themselves particularly "disturbed" about the south Indo-China port of Saīgon. Saīgon is only 650 sea miles from Singapore...
...François René Martin, commanding the Indo-Chinese forces, announced that he would resign if the Japanese demands were granted. The Ile de France, interned at Singapore by the British while en route to French Indo-China with a cargo of airplanes, was reported at Saïgon, headquarters of pro-De Gaulle forces, with its cargo intact. British diplomatic circles even declared that Admiral Decoux had forsaken Vichy and cast his lot with De Gaulle but had refrained from announcing it because if French Indo-China became a British ally, Britain might find herself at war with...