Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt was feeling no pain this week. He had laid his plans, and his plans seemed to be working out. He had seized a country-Dutch Guiana (Surinam). He had temporarily stalemated the Japanese, at a time when every day's delay before the Japs went to war constituted a real victory for the U.S. American tanks and planes were helping the British shag the life out of the Axis troops in North Africa. The first U.S. ships bound direct-to-England, direct-to-Russia were loading cargo and guns to win the Battle of the Atlantic. Traffic...
Blitz on Bauxite. In eight years, the President had taught Adolf Hitler nothing; but he had learned plenty from the Führer. The U.S. occupation of Dutch Guiana was as quick, cool, and as foresighted a step of getting to a vulnerable spot before the enemy seized it as Hitler himself could have planned. But unlike Hitler's aggressions it was made with the full consent of the other parties concerned: Brazil, the British, The Netherlands Government. The White House is sued a brief statement: The bauxite mines in Surinam furnish about 60% of the metal vital...
Heretofore the only commercial source of alumina-the oxide from which the pure metal is produced-has been bauxite, about half of which is now imported from British and Dutch Guiana, since there are only some 13,000,000 tons of known high-grade bauxite deposits in the U.S.-about a three-year supply at the present rate of consumption...
Stranded in New York, Mobile, New Orleans, Norfolk, Tacoma, were freighters and passenger ships. Chiefly affected were ten vessels of the Alcoa Line, which carry supplies to defense bases in the West Indies, bring back bauxite from Surinam (Dutch Guiana). Bauxite is the raw material of aluminum, which is the most publicized of defense-program shortages...
...British Guiana, with a site for an advanced air base...