Word: pango
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Clipper again buzzed southwest. This time Capt. Musick chose to fly at 8,000 ft., crossed the Equator and swept down after ten hours in the air to the "South Pacific's finest harbor," the boot-shaped bay of Pago-Pago (pronounced pango-pango) on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. Some 1,600 miles from Kingman, American Samoa is a cluster of six islands, inhabited by 300 whites and 10,000 Polynesians who used to eat each other. Tutuila is the largest island, 16 miles long, crowned with the lush, 2,000-ft. peak...
...Anglo-German treaty of 1900. And in 1925 the U. S. annexed tiny Swain's Island. Total U. S. Samoa comprises 60 sq. mi., 8,763 population. It is valuable for a rich output of copra, also for Tutuila's beautiful harbor Pago Pago (pronounced "pango-pango"), good naval station...
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