Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest list yet compiled. Examining all estimates, Dallin concludes that Soviet slave-labor camps contain not less than 12,000,000 men, women & children. But he cites other estimates whose figures have soared as high as 30 million. Two of the biggest slave-labor camps: Solovetski Island in the White Sea, which has been in business since 1923, and Dalstroy's camps in the Kolyma valley in eastern Siberia...
...Before dinner at Queens Seaplane Base on Long Island, Editor Elmer H. Holmes of the magazine Contact was elected president of the newly formed Aviation Suckers Society, an association of men who have lost money in aviation ventures. Holmes, who claimed to have dropped $600,000 in trying to operate a private airport, narrowly defeated Planemaker Howard Hughes (who lost millions) for the presidency. Reason: Hughes "still has a tremendous amount of money...
...that period, ancient Greece was not yet Greece, for the real Greeks had not swept down in numbers from Thessaly in the north. Athens was probably a small city subject to great Mycenae, itself an outpost of the strange, semi-Egyptian civilization which centered on the island of Crete...
...York and engaged her in private chitchat between planes. On the Miami airfield she told reporters she had nothing to say, and, between chomps on her gum, asked them if they didn't understand English. She then joined the police again. They took her to her classy island home in Biscayne Bay, where she settled down to enjoy the climate with hired guards in residence...
With a bone-rattling roar, seven low-slung speedboats charged down Long Island's Jamaica Bay to start the first of three 30-mile heats in the International Gold Cup race. Most eyes were on 45-year-old Bandleader Guy Lombardo, the defending champion, half obscured by his helmet and Mae West as he hunched in the cockpit of his 600-h.p., red-gold-&mahogany Tempo VI. More than a famous name and expensive pressagentry made Lombardo the favorite. Other speedboat drivers had to admit that he was "a hot chauffeur" with a well-balanced boat that should have...