Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boomtown fever was not confined to the Bund and midtown shopping area. At White Cloud airport a C.N.A.C. pilot exclaimed: "My God, there are five new buildings here since my trip last week!" From banyan-shaded Shameen Island (site of the original foreign concessions) the boom fever spread to equally fashionable Tung Shan, where Premier Sun Fo and other officials maintain swank Western-style homes. New arrivals vied eagerly for the few remaining houses and apartments. Key money for a dingy, two-room flat ran as high as $4,000 U.S. On the outskirts of the city hundreds of coolies...
...network be extended around Canada's Arctic? St. Laurent was worried about the cost-he had seen some plans for electronic expenditures so vast that they would leave no money for anything else. He promised that his government would respect U.S. leases on three Newfoundland bases when that island joins Canada on March 31. PM St. Laurent hoped that the U.S. would in turn respect Canada's rights, treating her "on a plane of equality...
Other railroaders call Budd "the presidents' president" because such big wheels as the Rock Island's President John Farrington, Santa Fe's President Fred Gurley and the Great Northern's President Frank Gavin are Budd-trained men. Soon a protegé will succeed him. Next August, Ralph Budd will be 70 - and the Burlington has an inflexible rule that its men must retire at that age. Budd has no intention of breaking the rule: he made...
...Felton, Jaakko Mikkola's former star weight chucker, came through to win the National AAU 35 pound weight throwing event, as predicted, in New York Saturday night. He narrowly beat out two collegians and two Olympians with a throw of 57 feet, 11 3/4 inches. Bob Bennett of Rhode Island, last year's winner and number one weight thrower in the Olympics, failed to place...
Died. Brigadier General Ira L. Kimes (ret.), 49, Marine Air Group commander at Midway Island (June 1942), who got the D.S.C. for standing off a Japanese task force until U.S. carrier planes came to the rescue; of coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda...