Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming in the greatest week of the war -when the Jap Cabinet fell, the Russians denounced their neutrality pact with the Japanese, the remnants of the Jap fleet were almost put out of business; when U.S. spearheads cut to within 128 miles of Berlin, and General Patton stumbled on the fabulous Nazi gold hoard-Eisenhower's letter had a sobering effect...
Until the Manila Electric Co. plants could be rebuilt, a feeble flow of power was being supplied by Army portable generators. Manila Electrics local plant was almost rubble, its two hydroelectric plants outside the city were still in Jap hands, and reported heavily damaged. Manila Electric's president, J. C. Rockwell, who had been interned at Santo Tomas, gloomily estimated that it would cost $6,000,000 to restore the city's prewar electric supply of 42,000 kilowatts. As of last week even that was academic. New equipment must be shipped in before...
...Assistant Philippine Sugar Administrator gravely warned of a probable sugar shortage in 1946. The jungle was closing in on many sugar plantations abandoned during Jap occupation. The midget railways that hauled cane from the fields to the mills had been carried away by the Japs...
...setting up the joint land-sea commands of MacArthur and Nimitz, Washington decided that there was no longer any need for a Supreme Commander in the Pacific. Army and Navy forces can now agree on objectives. The Jap fleet, hacked to pieces in three historic days off the Philippines last October, mortally hurt last week, will never again be able to divert the Navy from close support of amphibious landings. The Navy has virtually completed its main and traditional task-to seek out the enemy's fleet and destroy it. For husky, white-haired Chester Nimitz the rest...
Last week Ritchie and friends moved into the Seattle area to harangue a big crowd at suburban Bellevue. A bust of "America's No. 1 Jap Hater," offered as a door prize, turned out to be a likeness of General Douglas MacArthur. Money clinked musically as ushers moved down the aisles...