Word: maru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shusuke Wada was a nimble, hunchbacked interpreter nicknamed "Running Wada" by the American prisoners he escorted from Manila to Japan. Once, from the steaming hold of the Oryoku Maru came the desperate cry: "For God's sake, Mr. Wada, we must have water! The men are dying. They're drinking their own urine!" Shouted Wada: "If they die, it's no concern of mine." Of the 1,619 prisoners, only 450 survived the trip...
...time rate of certain excise taxes. The rest concern such vital issues as annual rates of pay for Senate clerical staffs, the Philadelphia National Shrines Park Commission, installation of a storm drain under certain lands in Los Angeles, and payments to Switzerland for the sinking of the Awa Maru...
...When the Japanese hospital ship Takasago Maru was intercepted removing the sick and wounded from Wake Island "the Japs didn't have any magazines aboard and very much like to have TIME, LIFE if you have, please," reports Lieutenant Frank Huggins, Tokyo-raised language officer aboard the U.S.S. Murray. The destroyer grudgingly parted with one dog-eared copy of LIFE from the ward room and several copies of TIME'S Pony Edition printed in Honolulu. "The Japs bowed an eloquent thanks with a good deal of unnecessary, hissing...
...Pacific, on the late afternoon of July 3, the U.S. destroyer Murray sighted the Japanese hospital ship Taka-sago Maru, bore down on her and ordered her to heave to. In two small boats, a party of 26 heavily armed Americans, led by the Murray's executive officer, Lieut. Commander Robert H. White, approached the dingy white two-stacker...
Into Yokohama Harbor last week steamed the exchange liner Teia Maru, bringing home some 1,300 Japanese citizens, able & willing to give their Government firsthand reports on how matters stood in the enemy U.S. after nearly two years...