Word: hokkaido
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...barrels of high octane gasoline. Next day the Associated was berthed beside her with 95,000 barrels more. Early this week another arrived. And strung like a chain across the Pacific still more tankers wallowed along from the U.S. to Russia, right between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. If not actively fighting Fascism, the U.S. was helping to fuel the fight against...
...flambant d'or, on field gules), crept out from the Palace grounds. The Emperor and Empress were greeted by Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. With Imperial humility the Emperor bowed to the crowd. Finally Prince Konoye stepped to a microphone and. waving his arms, led all Japan, gathered from Hokkaido to Honshu at millions of radios, in the Japanese equivalent of three cheers: "Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!" Then the assembled 52,000 bowed toward the pavilion, and the absent millions bowed toward their microphones...
...earth as the moon passed in front of the sun. Like a crow's shadow, at dawn the eclipse trailed over Athens, leaped the Golden Horn, spanned the Black Sea, darkened Omsk, Tomsk, Kansk, crossed the Khingan Mountains into Northern Manchukuo, the Japan Sea into the Island of Hokkaido, then passed 2,800 mi. out into the Pacific where it spent itself at sundown...
...Peak, and enfolded the secret forts on the heights. The crows flapped up from the garbage in the slums to be whirled helplessly to the base of the two peaks, where they dropped on limp wings. Children hung their snow sleds beside the door and squatted down to a Hokkaido (Japan's New England) supper of fish, beans and rice. In the Bay a forest of masts swayed wildly. But wind and cold are nothing new to the citizens of Hakodate, Japan's ninth biggest city and enterprising port of a northern island that is nearly the climatic...
Japan's southern spearhead, plunging upward from Suichung, was for some reason largely composed of the Empire's most cold-hardened troops, soldiers from Hokkaido, northmost major island of Japan. To reach Lingyuan they would have to take two mountain passes of great natural strategic strength. Reputedly these passes were held by picked troops sent down from Chengteh by the Governor of Jehol, redoubtable Tang Yulin (see col. 1) and up from China proper by "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang of Peiping...