Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, they snared Antoine Gazda, Austrian-born inventor, who holds the U.S. rights to Switzerland's Oerlikon cannon, now being manufactured in Providence for the U.S. Navy. At Roosevelt Field Inn on Long Island, county police arrested Baroness Lisette von Kapri, a civilian flyer, born in Rumania, who for the past year has been friendly with student pilots at Roosevelt Field. In Alexandria, Va., the prize was pink-cheeked Kurt Sell, Washington correspondent for Germany's official DNB news agency...
Farther west, at Guam, the part-Marine, part-Navy garrison had been subdued by the Japanese. Guam, long denied the sinews of defense by a strangely bemused Congress, could have met no other fate. It was almost under the guns of the Japanese fortified island of Rota 70 miles to the north. But east of Wake, on Midway, Marines also stood fast. Quartered on an island group that is a Pacific paradise beside Wake, they sent out no news beyond the fact that they were still hanging...
...west. Across the mountains there is a rolling country of bamboo, rubber plantations, tin mines: a country divided by a network of good roads, cut up by rice paddies, full of people and not beasts. It is washed by the quiet Malacca Strait, sheltered by the long Island of Sumatra...
...undersea cable somewhere west of Midway Island...
...nature of the accords, which may possibly provide for joint French-American defense of Martinique and the adjacent French island of Guadeloupe, was not disclosed...