Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was no mistaking the urgency in Washington, but the remedies applied to date have been inadequate. Month ago, WPA upped its Puerto Rican quota from 18,000 to 25,000. But this was just a drop in the bucket: unemployment has risen to 322,000, almost half the island's employables. The war Shipping Administration's promise of 30,000 tons of shipping space a month was coupled with the admission that this "practically cuts the island off from shipping commerce." (In normal times, .shipping averaged four times as much.) Most help came from the Agricultural Marketing...
...next offensive step would logically be an assault in force on Buin, at the southern extremity of Bougainville Island. That is the point from which Jap task forces have hopped for Guadalcanal. On the way Rekata Bay, a Jap naval air base, would have to be eliminated on the flank. After that, Rabaul-the heart of the Japanese system in the lower Pacific...
Battle of Savo Island. On the night of Aug. 8-9, the Japs caught a U.S. cruiser and destroyer force patrolling defensively, sank four Allied cruisers, one transport...
Since Pearl Harbor, the Office of War Information gravely announced last week, the Army and Navy have bought or are engaged in buying private property equal to the combined areas of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, the District of Columbia and four-fifths of New Jersey. The Army's total property holdings alone are now 23,437 square miles, equivalent in area to almost half of England's or twice the whole of Belgium...
Other colleges listening in tomorrow night will be Brown, Columbia, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Hamilton, Princeton, Rhode Island State, Union, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale...