Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kaiser symbolizes American industry at its best. Even when there was bad news about Kaiser-like the failure of his $6,000,000 Permanente magnesium plant in California-nobody heard much about it. But last week came bad news that got around: at Kaiser's Portland (Ore.) Swan Island yard the newly delivered 16,500-ton tanker Schenectady suddenly broke in half with a thunderous snap, settled in the water with its two-inch steel plates split clean asunder, the midship sections sticking out of the water like crags...
...Rhode Island's Governor J. Howard McGrath walked a mile over icy sidewalks to an ice-skating exhibition. He took along his chauffeur to hold...
...signs of Japanese stress & strain add up to a choice of difficult routes to Tokyo: 1) by overwhelming naval forces, bypassing the Japs' outer chains of islands and striking straight at Japan itself; 2) by air from China's waiting bases-still waiting because they cannot now be supplied; 3) island-by-island up the long ladder from the Solomons and New Guinea...
...West moved into the East with treaty demands in 1842, when British warships forced the Chinese to mark off five treaty ports. The British also seized the barren island they subsequently built up into the city of Hong Kong. In the War of 1856-60 further treaty ports were seized and the Chinese customs service handed over to foreign administration. After the Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the century, Western nations solidified their hold on further territorial concessions, forced indemnities and loans on China at heavy interest rates. The U.S. sanctimoniously used the "most-favored nation" clause...
...interest of greater realism, Producer Lester Cowan and Director John Farrow (who directed Wake Island) filmed the entire picture on the rugged crags of Vancouver Island. For the Commando sequences they had as actors actual Commandos-in-training of the Canadian Army, and among their technical advisers was Major General A. E. Potts, who organized the first actual Commando raid in Norway. But as a picture of war, Director Farrow's Commando lacks the force of his Wake Island...