Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army lieutenant stationed at Matsuyama, Shikoku, Japan, has written a friend of mine here a story which goes as follows: "When fire bombs destroyed his church, school and convent at Matsuyama last July, Father Perez watched 27 years of labor in Japan go up in smoke...
...owned land in Mountair, a Denver suburb, to a favored buyer at a fixed price-and it did not want the public to queer the deal by bidding. No one was outraged. For the customer was George Mitchell, 21, a veteran who had been blinded by a Normandy land mine explosion, now hoped to earn a living by building a group of court apartments in his home town. Mitchell could only afford $600 an acre...
Prime Minister King rose to reply: "No words of mine can tell General Eisenhower what Canadians feel for him in their hearts." Canada, he said, had no Culzean Castle such as Scotland had offered the General last November, but it did have something more enduring-9,390-ft. Castle Mountain, in the Rockies...
Homeland dear, you're mine at last...
Last week one of the first detailed reports out of Malaya, biggest producer in the Orient, scuttled this hope. After jeeping through the Malay peninsula, TIME Correspondent John Luter reported: no hidden stocks of tin, and no mine would operate for months to come. The Japs had looted the bulk of the engineering tools, flooded the mines, left destruction and decay behind them. The plight of the tin mines was far worse than that of the rubber plantations, which had been comparatively unharmed...