Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just as we have experienced many defeats in armed warfare, so have we suffered many losses in the sector of news and information. From Pearl Harbor to the Java Sea, from the Java Sea to Murmansk and the Aleutians we have failed to utilize the great tonic that the stark realism of bad news can give a determined and united people...
...Most Army losses were at Bataan, Corregidor and Java, and most of the men listed as missing are probably prisoners. Of the Army's wounded, at least 475 are patched up, back on duty. (In all World War I only 4,526 U.S. men were taken prisoner...
Ever since it was founded in 1869, Manhattan's great American Museum of Natural History has felt self-conscious about a gap in its collection of animal skeletons-the skull of the rare, nearly extinct Java rhinoceros, which has never been shown in any zoo on earth. Since 1920 the museum has sent many expeditions, financed by Trustee Arthur Vernay, to Malaya on fruitless searches for the shy beast...
...pesky milkweed, cursed by farmers, has found a use-as a substitute for kapok. With a newly invented milkweed gin, a Michigan factory will next month start removing 1,000,000 lb. of floss from milkweed pods, for the U.S. Navy. The floss will replace kapok, formerly imported from Java, in l) life jackets where, like kapok, it is six times as buoyant as cork; 2) linings of flying suits, where it is as warm as wool but six times lighter. Next year farmers will be paid to plant free milkweed seed in 50,000 barren acres of upper Michigan...
Captain Rooks was commander of the cruiser U.S.S. Houston, lost following the battle of Java. He was listed as missing in action, and the award of the nation's highest war decoration was made by President Roosevelt...