Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizen, shocked by the cost of conquering Iwo Jima, (see U.S. AT WAR) wondered last week if there might not have been a way to avoid it. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, who has seen many a U.S. fighting man fall on Pacific isles, radioed: "We had to have this island, regardless of casualties. Jap strategy all along has been to send U.S. casualties soaring until the Americans sicken of the war and call it off. I do not believe any method of any man could have lessened the cost. I once wrote that there would be many more Tarawas before...
...Neither of these flag raisings was official: last week, when Admiral Nimitz formally took possession of the island, the U.S. flag was run up near the base of Suribachi with traditional ceremony...
Married. Emily ("Paddy") Vanderbilt, 19, handsome descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (founder of the New York Central Railroad), daughter of Captain William H. Vanderbilt, U.S.N.R. (ex-Governor of Rhode Island); and Jeptha Homer Wade III, 20, fellow senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, descendant and namesake of a founder of Western Union; in Portsmouth...
...Defense Transportation with appeals for help. Gist of the appeals: ODT should get tough and force Eastern railroads to return thousands of cars belonging to Western railroads. As the appeal was made, such grain-hauling roads as the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago Burlington & Quincy, and Chicago Rock Island & Pacific had only a little over half of their own cars on their lines...
...motion forward has the involuntariness of a convulsion. Even as you look from a plane steep into the sea, and note the amazingly regular patterns of the wakes, it is more as if a stone had been gashed by the claws of a great beast. And along the ashen island, men and machines flounder and founder as desperately, and with as little apparent clarity of intention, as if they themselves were phantasms of dust...