Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bornholm Island some 75,000 more gave...
...pivoted its great war effort from Europe to the Pacific, it came face to face with a startling fact-it was waging war against a god. Its sea armada had already crushed his island outworks. Its planes were pulverizing his cities. Now its armies were preparing to invade the sacred soil of his homeland...
...Seventy-two cases of art stolen from France and from Russia-in the former Carthusian Monastery at Buxheim. ¶ Some 300 cases of miscellaneous loot-in another old stronghold of Ludwig II of Bavaria on the island of Herren...
First off the mark was Rhode Island, which depends on racing for 8% of its state revenue. The betters jammed Narragansett Park 25,000 strong, could hardly wait to stuff $1,153415 (almost twice what they wagered on opening day last year) through the betting machines. In Chicago, a meager 13,673 turned up at Sportsman's Park, wagered an average $50 (against $37 on the same day last year). Other tracks joining the pony parade: ¶ Race-hungry Hollywoodish Santa Anita had planned to open up the day after the ban was lifted, found trouble getting help...
Coconut Oil. Because most of the machinery at Pathfinder had been wrecked by the Japs, the guerrillas scoured the island until they found a dilapidated 30-h.p. Fairbanks Morse marine motor. Ruiz and helpers took the motor, hooked it to an electric generator. Then they had a power plant - if they could find some motor fuel. They could not - until they tried coconut oil. It worked...