Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negotiations continued on the hot little island of Martinique. There Rear Admiral John H. Hoover and the State Department's Samuel Reber conferred with Admiral Robert (TIME, May 18). There were other concessions which the State Department was determined to get, chiefly: supervision over some 70,000 tons of French merchant ships in the Caribbean trade; continued close supervision of the more than $200,000,000 in gold stored on the island; a U.S. observer for the radio station on Martinique...
...States worriedly computed their impending losses. New Jersey figured to lose $6,175,000 in gas taxes. Little Rhode Island, with a total annual budget of $17,700,000, expected to lose $1,000,000 in funds which it had counted upon from gas taxes, horse racing, summer tourists...
When Italy's sneak-punch into the war brought minuscule Malta under its huge, puffed-up shadow, there was not a single plane on the island. Only 60 miles from Sicily, Malta was promptly written off by the British as impossible, to defend. But while Italy still controlled Sicily, Malta's war was a seesaw affair of brief, bravura raids and dolce jar niente. Not till the Luftwaffe took over did the real pasting come, and Malta become history's most heavily bombed island...
...Mihailovich's swarming raiders have preserved an "Island of Freedom", which for a time was 20,000 square miles in area, with a population...
...vast schemes are going forward for converting to agriculture more of the one-sixth of Scotland that is locked up in huge, private hunting preserves, Benedictine monks at Fort Augustus have hiked up their habits and converted ten acres of monastery land into a victory garden. From low-ceilinged island cottages comes the never-ending keening of Heb-riden women mourning their men lost...