Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sodom by the Sea, Newsmen Pilat and Ranson narrate with raffish gusto what they call "an affectionate history" of the "island" (which by filling in its dividing ditch has long since been firmly attached to the mainland). They tell all: the evolution of the amusement parks, side shows, steeplechases, sly games to trap sucker money; the fortunes made and lost by Coney financiers ; the fires that periodically gutted the wooden jungles, during one of which lions ran in the streets with manes on fire; a female exhibitionist who smoked cigars "in a peculiar manner"; a sailor who took his girl...
...Crete. Should the Nazis hazard it. they would find Iceland twelve times as large, and with a population three times as small as Crete-much better suited to parachute and glider tactics. But Iceland lies at least five times as far from nearest Nazi bases as Crete from the mainland of Greece. Since last May, when Canadian troops landed to guard armyless, navyless Iceland, the British have put, according to some reports, 80,000 men on the island...
...from the poverty-ridden countryside, the Army's $21 a month looked like a fortune. These unfortunates, underfed, underbred, did the best they could in U.S. uniforms. They would have done a little better if they had had more U.S. equipment. Mixing them in with regulars from the mainland did nothing to improve the quality of the island's defense...
...surrender to the Germans, four couriers chug-chugged by motorboat to the Greek mainland, put-putted by motorcycle to Yanina in Epirus, where their conquerors waited. The same evening Corfu authorities received a telegram accepting their submission...
Murder among the Eskimos is fairly in frequent, always logical. Most usual causes are shortages of wives or food. But the 200 families on the Belcher Islands have a tradition of murder. Their forebears were banished there from the mainland 50 years ago for massacring the white men at Great Whale River. But this murder, according to Trapper Riddell, was a matter of theology...