Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Java was a catastrophe in which...
forces played only a minor part. The Battle of the Java Sea was led and lost by a Dutchman. The subsequent loss of the Langley, sent by the Navy with planes to defend Batavia, was a creditable long-shot bet that failed to come...
...That President Roosevelt wanted the world to know that his friend Tommy Hart had not let his country down, even though he mysteriously resigned his command of Allied naval forces on Feb. 11, before the sea battle of Java...
...From Java she limped to Ceylon, tacking like a sailboat, and from Trincomalee to Capetown, choosing the shorter, safe laps of the long way round the world. Still shipping water, the Marblehead got home last week. This week her Captain, shy, soft-spoken Arthur G. Robinson, watched men swarming over her, dragging pipes, riveting, hammering below decks. Home from hell, the Marblehead was being reconditioned, for she might have to go into hell again...
From Indo-China the Jap took a vital supply of rice and minerals; from Malaya, Java. Sumatra he got rubber; in Borneo he hastened repair of blown-up oil wells; from the Philippines and the erstwhile Dutch islands his diet was sweetened with sugar; from China he got cotton and high-grade bituminous coal. Japanese sources reported that in Java great Japanese banks (Yokohama Specie Bank, Bank of Taiwan) were already exceedingly active. The Jap's New Order in Asia was potentially one of the richest economic units in the world; already the Japanese felt heady enough to discourage...