Word: orients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scarabaeoid object labeled "Agnimani, the Magic Gem of the Orient" from one Baron Richard de Touche-Skadding...
...raiders from Pakistan were amazingly well equipped. They used automatic guns, mortars,. 3.7-in. field guns, and even light tanks and flamethrowers. Troops of the Indian Dominion, flown in to hold the Maharaja's capital at Srinagar, the down-at-heel "Venice of the Orient," tried strafing the invaders from Spitfires of the Indian Air Force. But the raiders were through the outlying passes now and inside the lovely Vale of Kashmir itself. They pressed closer on Srinagar, and, on the march, proclaimed Azad Kashmir-Free Kashmir...
...Some shippers argue that the new ships' greater speed and better utilization of space will make up part of the greater cost. Three new ships, they claim, do the work of four old ones. But many a British shipping man also agreed with I. C. Geddes, of the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., whose new $12,000,000 Orcades, a 31,000-ton passenger ship, was recently launched. "In addition to running costs," said Geddes, "these two ships [the Orcades and a sister ship to be built] will have to earn something in the neighborhood...
Colonel Robert R. McCormick (Sat. 10 p.m., Mutual). The weekly "air editorial," delivered en route to the Orient, from Honolulu...
...Vacuum Oil Co.'s* $30,000,000 Palembang plant, biggest U.S. refinery in the Far East. Dutch soldiers held off the enemy until the oilmen escaped. The new Japanese proprietors rebuilt the refinery, saw their work undone in two Allied air raids. Few U.S.-owned plants in the Orient had taken such a beating; few staged a faster recovery...