Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clamp down the blockade of Japan that strategists have long envisioned, and, if Russian air bases were put at U.S. disposal, might bomb Japan's main naval and industrial establishments. From Alaska the U.S. Navy might punch air raids into Japan's northern advance base at Paramoshiri Island, south of the Kamchatka peninsula. From Guam and Wake, regained, U.S. Army and Navy Air Forces could bomb the Japanese mandated islands and begin to forge a chain that would be stout and confining...
...number of Japan's carriers is not known: estimates vary between eight and 13. Japanese carriers are small, with space for from 24 to 60 planes, compared with U.S. carriers' 80 to 100. They are fast, running to 30 knots. And they are daringly designed, with no island above the flight deck and funnels aimed astern like huge exhaust pipes...
...that included Cinemactors Bruce Cabot, Randolph Scott, George Montgomery and di Cicco. Her fiancé has been married once before: to the late buxom, blonde Cinemactress Thelma Todd, who died of undetermined causes in 1935, a year after their divorce. His father, the late Pasquale Sr., was a Long Island truck gardener known as "the Broccoli King...
...grimy Zug Island in the Detroit River last week a new National Steel blast furnace was blown in less than six months after construction work began (usual time: 12-18 months). It is 105 ft. high, will produce 450,000 tons of pig iron annually, is thus even bigger than the new Bethlehem furnace ("world's biggest") blown in at Lackawanna last month...
Rain and bombs pelted the island of Hong Kong, from whose peak this picture was taken. Hong Kong (lower foreground) and Kowloon (across the water) are the ragged end of the thin red line of Empire. From their Victorian mansions on the hillside, Britons looked out, as their predecessors had for 100 years, on the red and grey hills in the distance beyond which lies China, and on the masts of the myriad ships that make Hong Kong the sixth greatest port on earth...