Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile supply line, the longest in the world. A southeast China port through which can flow thousands of tons of needed war materiel from the U.S. is Claire Chennault's key to decisive victory. Only the Navy, knifing through the Gilberts toward Truk, and northward to Wake and Guam, while General Douglas Mac Arthur pushes toward the Philippines, could open such a port...
Scholastic'lly the school is highly rated, The curriculum is rather complicated, And by the time a student's graduated He hasn't learned a goddam thing Except to clear his throat and sing: Fight on for Tannenbaum! Regardless if you reside in Peru or Guam, Give your might for and fight for One, two, three, four, Five, six, seven, eight, nine, Tannenbaum...
...symbolized by a factory through which a serpent wove its way. In another picture plumbing the future, a dragon Hitler encountered God, whose hooked nose and long white beard projected from a cloud. Passing from fore to hindsight, Mrs. Bush exhibited her brilliant idyllic scenes of the island of Guam, painted in 1942 from memories of a 1921 visit...
...Bush (née Spore) was born near Bay City, Mich. She is a sister of the late U.S. Navy Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam. In her time she has practiced dentistry, and as a lavish Manhattan charitarian she became known as "The Angel of the Bowery...
...November 1941 Sheean took a clipper for the U.S. More than personal history was right behind and ahead of him. At Guam, the governor told Sheean about a recent delegation of islanders who had come to express sympathy. Said the governor: "I am very grateful, but I do not know why I stand in need of sympathy." Said the islanders: "Pardon, sir, but we think you are in the same position that the Spanish Governor was in 1898." At Wake Island, the signature just before Sheean's in the station master's wife's autograph book took...