Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also revealed last week was the establishment of a Jap airfield at Munda on New Georgia Island, only 150 miles from Guadalcanal. U.S. forces could now expect more frequent raids than the daily bombing between twelve and two and the nightly nuisance raid of solitary "Washing-Machine Charley...
Last week Malta's Constitutional Party, backed by the Labor Party, demanded self-government for the island. Unlike India's Congress, Malta's leaders did not demand complete independence. They asked only that Malta be a self-governing partner in the British Commonwealth; the British Government's promise of full self-government after the war would be good enough...
...Every day some new island in the Pacific pops up like a volcanic explosion and the Navy says we must have troops there. Then they take another island and say we must have troops there. They are right. In every case it is vital to the security of our communications and to the progress of our advance...
...Grocery Stores. "On each Pacific island, in the Aleutians, Greenland, Africa, everywhere, each unit of troops must take along its engineers, its quartermaster detachment, its medical, sanitary and communications units. There are no public water supplies in the Pacific, few roads or railroads in Africa. Bridges, automobiles, service stations, grocery stores and similar facilities are few and far between...
...into realizing that there has been a total blank in his life, a terrifying stranger (Sheldon Leonard) rushes after his taxi, hammers maniacally on the window. A tough blonde (Claire Trevor) has proudly saved the newsclips about the murder Meredith learns he is being hounded for. In a Long Island mansion, with the help of a paralytic old lady (Adeline De Walt Reynolds), he at last gets the heat turned on the real culprit...