Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Force had stepped up its bombing of air bases and oil supplies in Celebes and Borneo; Major General Willis H. Hale's Seventh Air Force had smashed at the Bonin and Volcano Islands; Chennault had raided Formosa; the southern Palau Islands had been seized by U.S. troops...
While Kenney's air force in the south pounded the Celebes and Halmahera, oil-rich Balikpapan in Borneo and the supply center of Zamboanga in the southern Philippines, a detached force of Pacific Fleet battleships steamed north to tiny (740 acres) Marcus Island, little more than 1,100 miles southeast of Tokyo. After a full day of bombardment, Marcus' two air strips were out of commission...
Again the Japs were caught flatfooted. Carrier aircraft trapped 97 planes on the ground, destroyed them, shot down 124 more in the air by midafternoon. While the fighters tallied this score, the bombers slashed at airfields, hangars, oil dumps, warehouses, docks and shipping, sank 16 cargo vessels...
Roared the Republicans: "CLEAR EVERYTHING WITH SIDNEY!" What about the shipments of steel and oil to Japan under Roosevelt? To avoid unemployment, a WPA on the Rhine...
...tackled the big job of the convention-the organization of an International Cooperative Trading and Manufacturing Association for world trade. Leaders plan to have this venture financed and owned by foreign as well as domestic coops. The co-ops will first use the International to export farm products, machinery, oil and gasoline...