Word: maru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only U.S. Army medical man he had in Burma, a dentist named Captain (now Major) Donald M. O'Hara, and telegraphed Chungking to send down an abdominal surgeon trained at the Mayo Clinic, a Captain John Grindlay, to work with me. Grindlay, after having Koi, Kyang Lewi and Maru Bauk assist him at various particularly bad cases, adopted the whole crowd, and to this day tells everyone they are the best trained nurses he ever...
Toward Coolness. As he set sail last January aboard the Kamakura Maru to take up his appointment in the U.S., Admiral Nomura was tall with hope. At first things went swimmingly. At Honolulu U.S. naval officers, among them Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet Admiral James O. Richardson, greeted him as pretty girls laid leis about his neck. Off California two destroyers met his ship. As he sailed through the Golden Gate a battery at Fort Winfield Scott fired a 19-gun salute. In San Francisco reporters interviewed him and Nisei (U.S.-born Japanese) feted...
Reason for this extreme action was to hoard all U.S. silk supplies for military use (chiefly powder bags and parachutes). At month's end visible supplies were 47,000 bales. Last week the crack Japanese liner Tatuta Maru, after much legal backing & filling, unloaded its 5.568 bales on San Francisco docks (see cut). Five other ships added another 11,000 bales, bringing U.S. supplies to 63,000 bales. This was about three months' civilian supply. It would fill all defense needs, said the Army, for two years...
Somewhere off San Francisco, its radio silent and its whereabouts unknown, the Japanese liner Tatuta Maru lay in wait early this week-unwilling to land until it was sure its cargo would not be seized as a result of U.S. freezing orders (see above). The cargo: $2,500,000 worth of raw silk, which a special train waited to take to Eastern mills...
...Tatuta Maru was a symbol of the recoil the U.S. would have to brace itself for if President Roosevelt chose to fire his new economic weapon. The U.S. last season got only 18% of its silk from China and other minor sources, all the rest (273,711 bales) from Japan. Loss of this supply would mean i) an epidemic of bare or lisle-clad shanks, 2) abrupt dislocation of the U.S. hosiery industry (97,000 workers), 3) lesser repercussions on many another U.S. clothing manufacturer...