Word: guam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archibald B. Roosevelt, promoted the project, set about collecting funds (goal: $10 million). Selling the Navy on the idea was easy; Admiral Nimitz is a natural-history fan himself. Last week Dr. Dillon Ripley, Yale zoologist, was on his way to the Memorial's future headquarters at Guam. From there he would island-hop to pick out bases; eventually he would wind up in Tokyo, where he hoped to win General MacArthur's support...
...Guam's Apra Harbor 2,100 Japs marched aboard a Jap-manned transport en route to their homeland. By December 50,000 more-the last U.S. prisoners in the Pacific-will be returned. Some 90,000 British-held Japs will still remain, and the Dutch have announced that they intend to keep another 13,500 indefinitely in Indonesia for dockside and other heavy labor...
...Sharp pointed to Martin's opposition to the fortification of Guam in 1941 and to his firm position against pro-labor and price control legislation. She quoted Wilson Wyatt, National Housing Expediter, as telling her in Washington last week that "I'd like to come up and stump your district. It's largely because of one man in Washington that the veterans housing program is 3 1/2 months behind schedule--because of one man, Joseph W. Martin of Attleboro...
...military commission on Guam last week read into the record a Japanese Army major's confession of cannibalism. Unlike rumored instances elsewhere, this was no story of starving Japanese eating their own or enemy dead in an effort to survive. It was ritual cannibalism practiced on the bodies of U.S. flyers who had been decapitated after being shot down in the Bonin Islands. The sole excuse: "war madness...
...just as simple-a quarrel between two roommates, the achievement of gonorrhea by a seaman at an apparently barren island-but they are told with aptitude and humor. Author Heggen, 27, who now writes for the Reader's Digest, served aboard an assault transport in the Pacific, at Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, thereby seeing somewhat more action at sea than the Reluctant...