Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marine Division, had distinguished himself again-this time by plunging into a burning plane and dragging three men to safety. On Guam last year the onetime All-America football player (University of California) had won the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" by leading his men in repelling three heavy Jap counterattacks, and by refusing evacuation though he was twice wounded. His own men know Bob Herwig only as an exceptional officer. They have all but forgotten what U.S. civilians would probably regard as his greatest claim to fame: he is also the husband of Kathleen Winsor, author...
...already sprouted rows of cheap wood and tin shops amid the ruins. There, Filipinos and free-spending U.S. soldiers & sailors can buy a scoop of ice cream for $1 ; a pair of U.S.-made shoes for $120; a woman's dress of sleazy material for $35; or a Jap-made bicycle, which sold for $20 before...
...Mickey Mouse Era. Cause of the inflation was no mystery. The Islands were picked clean by the Japs and goods are scarce. Souvenir-hunting G.I.s and well-heeled Filipinos snap up the thin leavings at any price. Moreover, the Filipinos themselves became accustomed to fantastic prices when the Japs flooded the Islands with their "Mickey Mouse" paper money. At one time, five pounds of rice cost 1,000 pesos in Jap printing-press currency...
Died. John ("Honest Jack") Curtin, 60, Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia, policeman's son, onetime printer's devil, revolutionary socialist, trade unionist, journalist and political orator, who marshaled Australia's strength to stand off the Jap, and converted it (in co-operation with his good friend General Douglas MacArthur) into the Pacific war's first Allied bastion; of a heart ailment, in Canberra, Australia. Quiet but forceful, austere but approachable, Curtin was described by Winston Churchill as a " commanding, competent and wholehearted leader...
...chairs. Few pencils, little paper and no chalk was to be had. The books that remained were encrusted with the pastemarks of Japanese censors. This was the Filipino education picture last week, as tens of thousands of children went back to school for the first time since the Jap occupation...