Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hell. The situation had become almost a national scandal. The majority of the war-working U.S. didn't give a hoot for all the vacationers' sufferings. Rhode Island waxed so wroth over the stranded-tourist situation that its State Senate passed a resolution condemning Florida for withholding gas for return, trips. (Rhode Island's Governor J. Howard McGrath canceled a hard-won reservation at Miami Beach's swank Roney Plaza...
...same kind of warfare which unnerved U.S. troops on New Georgia last July. More Japs arrived from nearby Manus Island. Still the cavalrymen held...
Rabaul and its fine harbor dozed on volcanic fires. On a day in May 1937, the fires awoke. In the harbor, Vulcan Island exploded. Shipping was destroyed. Plantations were ruined. The town quaked for two terror-filled days. When it was over, the people swept up the pumice and tried to settle back into their hothouse calm. They did-until January 1942, when the Japs arrived...
...turfman turned South Pacific PT-boat skipper, was photographed with his 29-year-old brother George (also a lieutenant) at an advanced base in New Guinea (see cut). Apparently greasemonkeys to a considerable chunk of naval equipment, the descendants of the fabulous, family-founding skipper of the Staten Island ferry betrayed their rank only by their officer-like mustaches...
...Anglo-American air attack on Germany must be regarded as our chief offensive effort at the present time. Until the middle of 1943 we [the British] had by far the largest force in action. As a result of enormous transportations across the Atlantic . . . the U.S. bomber force in this island now begins to surpass our own and will soon be substantially greater still, I rejoice...