Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occupation of islands in the central Pacific has already started. U.S. Marines now hold Funafuti, the largest island in the small Ellice group, which lies 1,200 miles east of Guadalcanal. General Hale's bombers may have used Funafuti as an intermediate base last week...
Treasury Secretary Henry J. Morgenthau Jr. went to Portland, Ore. to spur the war bond drive, was given local apples to compare with his own New York State-grown product, compared them (see cut). At Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard a young worker remarked: "Say, I always have wanted some money direct from the Treasury." The Secretary reached into his right-hand exchequer, gave him two bits...
...Brewster Aeronautical Corp. of Long Island City is among the most substantial U.S. production fizzles of World War II. Earlier in the war, Brewster made a fighter plane, the Buffalo, that got into action in the Far East before Java and Singapore fell. By 1942 it had converted to making the Buccaneer, a not-so-hot dive-bomber, and is about to start making the Vought Corsair, an excellent Navy fighter. But the biggest trouble is not with the quality of Brewster planes, but with the quantity, which is a very meager military secret. Thus far the Axis...
...will go broke without last year's rate rise which ICC canceled last month (TIME, April 26). Alone in all U.S. industry, the rails made a spectacular showing. Lumbering New York Central almost quadrupled its 1942 earnings, hit $16,100,000- a 14-year high. The wobbly Rock Island did likewise, pushing its net up to $8,800,000 (v. $2,300,000 last year); Denver & Rio Grande jumped from $463,000 to $2,474,000; Great Northern turned a $92,000 deficit into a juicy $1,991,000 profit. Of 22 roads to report last week...
...young (18), auburn-haired. But Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane - the brokers she represented-guarded against too great a panic by garbing her plainly in a tannish gabardine uniform. Even so there was excitement, and will be more. For Helen Hanzelin, until three months ago a junior in Long Island City's Bryant High School, is only the first of more to come. From the Exchange and its member firms 3,600 male employes have gone into the armed forces...