Word: manila
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...received its big manila envelopes then, and 489 men signed their names on the required lines before running the greatly reduced gauntlet of solicitors, having only the publications representatives to deal with...
...expert in world trade-knows it both in theory and in hard, realistic practice. She studied in Warsaw, in Geneva, at the ficole des Sciences Politiques in Paris, at the London School of Economics-then followed her husband to the Far East, worked with a Polish export firm in Manila, came on with him to work in New York...
Drugs and Assassinations. Carroll Alcott (TIME, May 31) began to hate the Japanese in 1927, when, as a Manila news paperman investigating Japanese fortifications he found himself blocked and thwarted by Japanese agents in the Philippines. The principal one: his barber. My War With Japan is intermingled newspaper reminiscences and history of such Oriental affairs as the Japanese drug trade, together with a blow-by-blow account of how the Japanese tried to jam Alcott's anti-Japanese broadcasts from station XMHA in Shanghai. He was shot at and bombed; efforts were made to kidnap him and break...
...Navy and the Merchant Marine must have rope made out of manila hemp; no other kind withstands salt and fresh water so hardily. Manila hemp comes from abaca, a plant much like the one bananas grow on. The U.S. got 98% of its pre-Pearl Harbor hemp from the Philippines. After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. grew enough hemp seed to enable it to plant 300-350,000 acres of ordinary hemp in 1943. These crops will satisfy all but marine hemp needs...
...Pilot Kurtz the war began on a sunny day at Clark Field near Manila when the news of Pearl Harbor had just begun to sink in. The exact moment came when the pilots were waiting for orders for their first combat mission: a reconnaissance of Formosa, which they could not attack because the U.S. Congress had not yet declared war. From the direction of Formosa, as they knew they would, some 70 Japanese bombers came over and blew Clark Field to hell with a beautiful pattern of bombs, unmolested from the air, little molested from the ground. Twenty-four Flying...