Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northwest was back in the black, and last year its net profits of $517,000 were the highest ever. After the war, Hunter expects to stretch Northwest's routes all the way to the Orient by way of Alaska, to which he is already flying for the Army. To make this trans-pacific route financially feasible, Hunter had to have the Milwaukee-New York link. But he made it plain last week that he wants no help for this big job. He brushed off the suggestion of CABoss Lloyd Welch Pogue that Northwest merge with Pennsylvania-Central Airlines, presumably...
Kudzu is an old Japanese plant, grown in the Orient for its edible tubers (roots) and hemp-like fiber. In the U.S., where it was first grown in 1895, it has been known chiefly as a fast-growing porch vine. But southern farmers now cultivate it as a field plant to cover eroding soil. Planted from "crowns" (roots and buds), it spreads quickly, putting down new roots like strawberry runners. Its big leaves, shed each fall, eventually cover the ground with a thick, flaky carpet like a forest floor. Because it may be winterkilled by hard frosts...
...about it (With Naked Foot). After a spell as a reporter in London, footloose Emily's flight from the domestic atmosphere of Winnetka took her in 1935 to newspaper work in Shanghai and an unconventional apartment in the city's red-light district. She stayed in the Orient long enough to contribute numerous Chinese vignettes to the New Yorker, write a book about China's most famous women (The Soong Sisters), have an illegitimate child by the chief of the British Military Intelligence in Hong Kong. Last year the Japs sent her home on the Gripsholm...
Born in Osaka, Japan, Dooman lived in the Orient for over 30 years and is well steeped in the customs, manners, and reasoning of our enemy. He became a member of the United States Embassy at Tokyo and after many years of service rose to the post of Chief Consul in 1937, a position directly under Ambassador Joseph C. Grew...
...speaking to passersby, sleeping in mountain caves until they reached the Hungarian border. Karski met an underground agent in a border town, was motored to Budapest, hidden in a hospital, given papers to prove he had been in Budapest since the beginning of the war. He took the Simplon-Orient Express to France, six weeks of freedom, and talks with General Sikorski...