Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirit that moved Eire to declare her independence moved two of her western isles to assert their own independence of Eire. For 40 years the 200 fisherfolk of Turn and Turbot have maintained an "untaxable republic," refusing to pay taxes to County Galway on the mainland...
...port officials were on the alert last week against a possible mongoose invasion. The furry, weasel-like creatures are treasured pets of many U.S. soldiers stationed in Hawaii, where the commonest mammals are mongooses. Many a G.I. will probably try to smuggle his mongoose back to the mainland. If a few succeed, the effect on U.S. wild life and crops may be disastrous...
...sundown most of the picnickers began to straggle back to the mainland (the clubhouse has overnight accommodations for only about 20). All proclaimed the outing a great success. Said one good Democrat: "It was a good party. There was all we could eat, and more than we could drink-and only two people passed...
...examiners recommended for Pan Am the plushiest passenger runs from the mainland to Honolulu. And in the South Pacific Pan Am will have the air lanes to itself until the anxious British, now flying a military route from San Diego to Australia, put in a commercial service...
...some ways occupied Japan will resemble the Japan that Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry opened to the world in 1853. No longer an empire, sprawled over the western Pacific and the Asiatic mainland, the land left to the Japanese is a tight cluster of some 500 islands, mostly little ones bunched around and between the four "home islands" (see map). G.I. pronunciation of the strange, sibilant place names will produce a fascinating argot (Commodore Perry's men called Hokkaido "Hack-yer-daddy...