Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free and rich with opportunity, has always been a land to come to. Its emigrants could almost be counted on a few expatriate fingers. But out of San Francisco last week, on the Matson Line's Marine Phoenix, sailed a party of U.S. emigrants, bound for Australia. In the party were only 20 men (all ex-G.I.s who had been stationed in Australia), the Aussie war brides of twelve of them, and twelve children. But Australia hoped that many, many more U.S. veterans would follow this vanguard...
...were they going? They gave a great variety of answers. Few admitted that their Aussie wives (or fiancees still waiting for them Down Under) had anything to do with it. Some were going for the adventure. Wrote one: "New land. Less people. More elbowroom." Some thought they would have a better chance than in the U.S. to start businesses of their own. Many had been taken with the Australian climate and pace of living. Wrote ex-G.I. George Mason: "[Down there], Babbitts and go-getters are conspicuously absent. The people are happy, and in no hurry to slaughter themselves...
...queen of queens, the 21-year-old daughter of a dental technician, had no hifalutin ideas for the future. While her measurements (height 5 ft. 7 in., weight 130 lbs., bust 35 in.) flashed across the land and the usual flood of show-business offers poured in, she an nounced that she planned to take the $5,000 scholarship and use it to finish her studies at Memphis State College. Hollywood was definitely out, she said. Already engaged to a medical school student, she explained: "I'm only interested in one contract - the marriage contract...
Through the misty dawn, they could see the land they had fled in horror-Germany. Two months ago, they had left the Continent aboard a leaky old tub called Exodus '47, bound for Palestine (TIME, July 28 et seq.). Now they returned, aboard the Ocean Vigour and two other British transports, bound for German D.P. camps where the British had finally decided to take them. At 6:20, a loudspeaker asked the passengers to go ashore. On the battered Hamburg pier, the cordons of British troops and German police tensed...
...This land is a bloody graveyard!" Clusters of Germans watched curiously from a nearby hillside as the refugees moved into the camp. Refugee children refused food because, they sobbed, it was being offered them by German hands. British official?; explained that the food handlers were D.P.s, but the children still refused...