Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, MacArthur notably lacked trained supervisors. Said a top U.S. official in Osaka last week: "What can we do about starvation? We have only eight Government officers in a city of nearly three million." In another prefecture, less than half the 250 war plants that wanted to make peacetime products have even been examined-and after each such survey, it takes weeks to divest local Jap authorities of their national aptitude for red tape, graft and apathy, before the factory gets going again...
...True Hearts. A few things were not so grim. Newspapers reported with wonderment the case of a young Osaka worker employed by the U.S. Army. He had been hit by a tram and seriously injured. Three U.S. corporals called on him in the hospital, offered to pay his medical expenses. His family was "overcome with the sense of true-heartedness of the Allied soldiers...
Bowen breakfasted at 7, Houghton and Stuart at 9. Stuart spent the forenoon writing on his pet subject: New Testament criticism. At lunch all three took turns reading aloud the German war communiques from the English edition of Osaka Mainichi. High point of the day was "cocktail hour," when the three met to re-chew the morsels of news they had read at lunch. Every night Houghton and Stuart played anagrams-altogether 1,500 games. (Dr. Houghton wrote a book on anagrams which should be the definitive work...
...jampacked industrial cities are wrecked: Kobe 56%, Nagasaki 30%, Nagoya 31%, Osaka 26%, Yokohama 44%. Of Japan's important cities only one was untouched: Kyoto, the shrine city, apparently spared for psychological reasons...
...left Osaka with two engines severely damaged; the crew bailed out near Sofu Gan, 350 miles off the Japanese coast. Three planes (two PBYs, a B17) which were near by to spot such trouble marked the survivors' area with smoke bombs. The survivors opened their dye markers, which colored the water green around each man. The B-17 "Dumbo"* dropped a 1½-ton, two-engined Higgins boat by parachute. Two men crawled into the boat, picked up the other survivors. The Dumbo radioed a submarine, which reached the Higgins boat next morning. One man was lost: the flight...