Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Formosa made Japan the world's fourth sugar-producer; it yielded enough rice to feed all the Mikado's armies as well as coal and tin, gold, silver and copper; teak and camphor (70% of U.S. mothballs) and aromatic Oolong tea. At mountain-ringed Jitsu-Getsu-Tan-Lake of the Moon and Sun-the Japanese built the nucleus of a power system that put Formosa industrially ahead of the Philippines...
Union labor's drive for higher wages and lower hours boiled into violence last week. The Communist-tinged Canadian Seamen's Union called out 5,000 members manning the ships that ply the Great Lakes. The issue: an eight instead of a twelve-hour day. The union claimed that on about half the 153 lake ships, striking crews had walked out. Strike leaders tried to block the Welland and Cornwall Canals, vital links between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and Montreal. Strikers swarmed aboard the freighter Goderich in the Welland Canal, drove or dumped the crew ashore, lashed...
...Japan last week the Eighth Army had abuilding the largest project yet: 55 acres at Chofu, 15 miles from Tokyo on the Tawa River; 25 acres at Otsu, six miles north of Kyoto on Lake Biwa. It hoped to harvest 120,000 Ibs. (some eight servings for every U.S. soldier in Japan and Korea) of fresh vegetables a week by next spring. Reason for the project: Japanese soil has been heavily fertilized with night soil for centuries; vegetables grown in such farmland are fresh but may harbor disease-producing bacteria like the typhoid bacillus...
...both of Tom Bolles' eights swept across the finish line better than four lengths ahead of Yale on the Charles Saturday, the Crimson's first formal season of racing since 1943 was automatically insured against being labelled a flop. Now, no matter what happens in the forthcoming regatta on Lake Washington June 22, and despite what was at best a spotty record before the Eli race, the big question that makes the difference in any Harvard athletics--"did you beat Yale?"-- will have the right answer...
...Blue Dahlia. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in Raymond Chandler's melodrama, tight as a drumhead (TIME...