Word: okinawa
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...Seoul, Okinawa, Formosa, Hong Kong and the Philippines were still unknown quantities, but eight other Japanese cities were already showing signs of matching Tokyo's enthusiasm. As one Tokyo critic explained it: "My eyes were blurred with tears of my deep feeling. We have been waiting these many years just for this night." Said another enthusiast: "I feel as if I had eaten a big beefsteak of music...
...note with interest one of the "horrible" examples of waste cited by the Hoover Commission in their surveys of transportation expenditures of the Federal Government [April 11]. The air shipments of dog food to Okinawa were to myself. As air police officer of the 546th Ammunition Supply Squadron at Naha air base, I made use of 15 German police dogs that performed guard or sentry duty. These dogs were a major factor in reducing pilferage on the depot. The shipments of dog food arrived at intervals of two to three months and were intended to cover our needs...
...Force flew dog food to Okinawa, "probably setting a world's record" for the cost of dog food...
...wartime fleet commander, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance crossed the Pacific, from Midway to Saipan to Okinawa, the hard way. In 1952 he crossed it with ease to become U.S. Ambassador at Manila, but he soon found that his political duties were almost as exacting as running a fleet. After three highly successful years of extending his country's benevolent paternalism to the Philippines, while deftly avoiding any appearance of internal meddling, Ambassador Spruance, 68, was ready to retire. Last week, the White House announced his successor: Michigan's ex-Senator Homer Ferguson...
...capital gift of $50,666 to establish a memorial fund for Reginald Fincke, Jr. '82, who was killed in action on Okinawa May 15, 1945, is among the gifts previously unannounced...