Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundreds of planes over the South Atlantic to Africa; over the Pacific to U.S. outposts, to China, the Dutch East Indies and Australia. The U.S.-Africa run was started only four months ago by veteran over-water flyers -mostly from Pan American Airways. Planes now take off from Florida, hop-skip across the West Indies to steaming Brazilian airports, then jump 1,700 miles to Africa's wild & woolly Gold Coast...
...still is, limited to 375,000 tons a year. The U.S. refineries that handle Cuban sugar are nearly all located north of Baltimore. This means that, at a time when shipping is at a premium, raw sugar takes a long voyage up the dangerous coast rather than a short hop from Cuba to Florida-or taxes the railroads with a double haul...
...Prong. The Japanese chose their first landings well (see map): near Serang in the west, a hop & skip across the Sunda Strait from invaded Sumatra; on the broad, open coasts of Indramayu Bay, 160 miles eastward from Serang; at Rembang, another 225 miles to the east. Thus the Jap with three strokes sliced up the northern Javanese coast, flanked the capital of Batavia, the Army's mountain fortress at Bandung and Java's chief naval base at Surabaya...
...towns would be bad enough, but Canadians, remembering Pearl Harbor, thought also of Dutch Harbor. If the Japanese hoped to protect themselves from the wrath to come, they would have to neutralize Alaska, from which the Aleutian Islands stretch west and south toward Russian air bases, a short bomber hop from Tokyo...
Hangout for Broadway's anonymous, footsore young actors is the vast, bare-tabled, coffee-smelling basement of Walgreen's drugstore in Times Square. Into this "poor man's Sardi's," every noon, swarm the occupants of a thousand hall bedrooms, to eat and table-hop, jam the phone booths, swap hard-luck stories, pick up casting tips. Lately they have also been coming to buy a nickel's worth of reading matter...