Word: ja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would gain a powerful friend in the Far East, and would in effect double the strength of our Fleet." Japan likes the U. S. very much. Japan admires nearly everything about the U. S., from baseball to horn-rimmed glasses. Ja pan leaps like a hungry carp at every crumb of friendship the U. S. tosses onto the Pacific. When the President decided to send the ashes of Ambassador Saito home to Japan in the U. S. S. Astoria last year, Japanese almost buried Ambassador Grew's home in presents. It took only a few days, last week...
...friend and confidant of Big-Navy men in Washington is the New York Times's Correspondent Leland C. ("Lem") Speers. One morning last week the Times headlined a dispatch from Mr. Speers: VAST SECRET FLEET IN JA PAN REPORTED. The story reported what has long been on public record: that Japan is building three to four big battleships, somewhere between 7,000 and 12,000 tons heavier than the biggest (33,400 tons) in the U. S. Navy. The news in Lem Speers's yarn was that Japan had speeded up construction of its giants, that "the Japanese...
...Would Ja Mind? (Orrin Tucker: Columbia). Fiery-sided purring by Vocalist Bonnie Baker, who mewed Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! into its second incarmenation (TIME...
...matter how many military conquests Japan undertakes, the two most important requisites of the island Empire are the same as Britain's: 1) trade; 2) a Navy to insure it. With war in Europe commandeering the bottoms and bullets of all of Ja pan's maritime suppliers and naval rivals ex cept the U. S., Japan has had to orient her policy toward her democratic neighbor across the Pacific, and therefore toward the neigh bor's democratic friends, Britain and France...
...Hildegard's development confirmed a well-known phenomenon: that yes is one of the most ostracized words in English. At first Hildegard used ja, later all right...