Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic were 22 luxury-liners jampacked with homing American tourists (see p. 40); in Europe every American consulate, ministry, embassy swarmed with visa-waving U. S. citizens keen for a sight of Staten Island; at Villefranche, France, floated the U. S. Navy's Squadron 40-T, (the light cruiser Trenton, old destroyers Badger and Paul Jones) their steam up to haul U. S. nationals to embarkation points...
Bermuda's two-house Parliament voted emergency powers, including conscription, to Acting Governor Major Eric Aldhelm Torlogh Dutton. He called to the colors two of the island's three volunteer military units. Two officers commandeered a machine from a private estate and did what no Governor of Bermuda has ever done: toured the island by motor car, inspecting defense posts...
...Rumors of Japanese penetration in India have worried China; and the friendship of another downtrodden native race had feeling if not cash in it. Pandit Nehru received the biggest welcome ever accorded a foreign visitor. Over 200 officials and representatives of public organizations welcomed him at the pebbly island in the Yangtze which serves Chungking as an airport. Up through streets half-bombed, half-bedecked with banners & posters the Chinese drove their guest. As if purposely accentuating his sympathy for China, the Japanese sent over 18 bombers that night. For two hours Pandit Nehru sat snug in a dugout talking...
...that reason Grover Whalen long insisted that New York's World of Tomorrow would have no displays of nudity, a rule not too closely observed. San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition felt the same way. It allowed Sally Rand to establish a "Dnude Ranch" on Treasure Island, but boasted in advance that its Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts would draw more paying customers...
...last week Fair officials chortled. In the war between culture and sex, culture had finally won a victory and on no less a battlefield than Treasure Island. Figures for the first three weeks of August showed that the Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts had outgrossed Sally Rand...