Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the enemy turned around. Unlike the Battle of Java, where Allied naval forces potted Jap merchantmen, were themselves knocked off by Jap warcraft, the fighters in the Coral Sea concentrated on the enemy's warcraft. They were at it until Saturday night...
...U.S.S. Marblehead, light cruiser often claimed sunk . . . was bombed to hell and brought out of it by a crew that doesn't know the meaning of the word abandon. Thus the Navy last week began a long delayed tale of heroism about the Battle of Java...
...down by the bow, shipping water fast. Her choked pumps wouldn't drain her. Lining up a bucket brigade, her crew bailed her out like a rowboat, all night and all the next day and night, till she dragged on her belly into the port of Tjilatjap, Java...
...Commander Elmer P. Abernethy, captain of the Navy oiler Pecos, who ordered his crew to abandon ship in the Battle of Java, then manned a machine gun on the bridge and fought off Jap planes strafing his escaping...
Tapioca-pudding haters- numbering untold thousands of U.S. children and of still rankled grownups-got bad news last week. They had hoped that the Battle of the Pacific had cut them off for a long time from Java-grown tapioca. But the Department of Agriculture last week announced an understudy for tapioca, a new type of waxy corn developed by their plant breeders. Much relieved were industries which use tapioca for glue, and the Post Office Department, which uses it as a stamp adhesive...