Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most isolated of all U.S. battle theaters-China-Burma-India-got its first clear hearing on the U.S. air last week. The Blue Network program, Yanks in the Orient, was the first of 13 programs being recorded on the spot by U.S. Army Public Relations and flown to the U.S. by Air Transport Command.* It told the story of the Rescue Squadron of A.T.C.'s India-China wing...
...themselves. Eric's working life started when he was scarcely out of rompers. From selling newspapers and running errands he progressed to working his way through high school and the University of Washington by reporting for newspapers, stevedoring in vacations. In World War I he went to the Orient as a Marine intelligence officer, stayed in service until 1922. Then he returned to Spokane to begin his business career as a house-to-house salesman of vacuum cleaners. The first two weeks it was no sale. But the third week things began to break. He went on to open...
North toward the Orient, on the shortest possible line from Chicago to Vladivostok, U.S. warplanes roar over one of the most important air routes in the world: the northwest passage across Canada to Alaska and beyond. In Parliament last week Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe announced that air-minded Canada would pay the whole shot ($58,500,000) for her sector of this line...
Fisher started making a career out of the Orient right after leaving Yale, set out for the South Seas as a student ethnologist. For months he lived with Fatoia Tufele, king of a group of islands near Pago-Pago-and he still talks about the two beautiful damsels Fatoia provided to fan him as he sat dining on the hot porch of the king's palace. After that he went to Fiji, Tonga. British Samoa and on to China, where he worked three years on the China Press and the Shanghai Times-did special pieces for Reuters...
...remarked: "Looking forward to eating wheat bread, cheese, ice cream, steaks again, but don't really miss them. . . . My health is as good or better than it ever was." He swore: "We never feel cooped up.'' Everything considered, said Halsema, Camp Holmes deserved the label: "The Orient's finest concentration camp." It sounded fine...