Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pack of Picket-Picketers. Nobody faced starvation or even malnutrition, but some foods were almost impossible to get (although the striking stevedores were unloading relief ships from the mainland at the usual rates of pay). A few bags of potatoes and onions shipped by parcel post were gobbled up at the fancy price of 25? a pound. Rice, a staple of Hawaii's diet, was scarce. There was barely enough canned milk to feed the babies and scarcely enough feed to keep livestock and chickens alive. Mrs. Dorothy Lai had to close her little chop suey joint for lack...
Early in the war, plump, bustling Ruddy Tongg formed a syndicate of small businessmen, called a hid (rhymes with Louie), and bought up properties of Caucasians fleeing to the mainland. At war's end, Ruddy Tongg had $1,000,000 worth of choice assets, including a bottling works, lucrative Waikiki Tavern, an insurance company, a 36,000-acre ranch and other real estate...
...Open Door was closing fast in China. Once the Reds had slammed it shut, the dust of history would settle on half a century of Western endeavor and propagation of Western ideals on Asia's mainland. Watching the relentless march of the Communists below the Yangtze and south across prostrate China, the U.S. wondered: What next in Asia...
...Crimson squad was scheduled to take a six p.m. plane back to Boston Sunday afternoon and it was here that the PAA got in its last licks. The plane was held up five hours without apparent reason and arrived on the mainland...
Last week the changeover was in full swing. Marine air groups at Tsingtao, Guam and Ewa (outside Pearl Harbor) had been pulled back to the mainland; naval air headquarters was moving to San Diego and closing down four of its five air stations on Oahu. The Air Force was preparing to send its 81st Fighter Wing back to the West Coast, leaving Pearl Harbor's air defense to Hawaii's Air National Guard and its 25 overage F47 Thunderbolts. The Army had cut its garrison forces from 9,000 men to 6,900. By summer, the onetime bastion...