Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electrician, was not dead. While the raft under him drifted in the doldrums, he clung to life, alternately raved, mumbled and lay insensate under the equatorial sun. Last week came word that after 46 days on the flotsam-cradling sea he had been picked up near Georgetown, British Guiana, was recovering in a hospital there...
...last week Rear Admiral John H. Hoover and State Department's Samuel Reber landed at Vichy's Caribbean island of Martinique, went straight to the offices of bearded Admiral Georges Robert, High Commissioner of Vichy's possessions in the area (Martinique, sister island Guadeloupe and French Guiana...
ASSIGNMENT IN GUIANA-George Harmon Coxe-Knopf ($2). An eventful and fast-moving tale of Nazi intrigue in South America, where a young Bostonian assists the Georgetown constabulary in the solution of two murders...
...within five years. The Bureau of Mines has a two-stage process for getting alumina from a variety of domestic clays, shales and feldspars; if WPB would specify this process in future alumina plants instead of the commercial Bayer process, it would save the long bauxite haul from Dutch Guiana. The Bureau also has three new processes for producing magnesium...
Vichy officially reiterated its "neutrality," claimed its Fleet would be used only for "empire defense." Vichy also warned the U.S. to keep out of Martinique and French Guiana. Widespread French public opinion was probably reflected in a Journal des Débats editorial: "The conditions in which Japan struck the first blow prove that the decision to wage war was taken several days ago. As time passes the benefit of surprise action will doubtless diminish. Should the war prove long, America's potential will make itself felt...