Word: salina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incidental intelligence gleaned from BBC's survey of U.S. listeners: > 51 of 205 surveyed in Salina, Kans. listen regularly to BBC, like its war shows because they give "better first-hand information than U.S. broadcasts." Some objected to BBC because of the "speech...
...Method. Typical of the new detention barracks is the one at Camp Phillips, Salina, Kans., in the Seventh Service Command. The average casualty of his own misconduct is 25, has had only seven years education. Two out of three have been imprisoned for desertion (which in wartime can carry a death sentence) or persistently going A.W.O.L. (Other offenses: sleeping on post, repeated misdemeanors, unbecoming military conduct, escape, disobedience to officers.) Three out of four prisoners are single. Half come from farms, half from cities. All have been sentenced to hard labor and dishonorable discharge...
...there are potential base sites for joint U.S. -Mexican use: La Paz, offering a good, sheltered bay on the Gulf of California, with Magdalena similarly situated on the Pacific. Potentialities farther south are even more significant: The port of Salina Cruz possesses the only coastal dry dock from San Francisco to Panama, also has a fueling station. The fine harbor at Acapulco has a repair base, Guaymas a repair yard. Manzanillo is another fueling station...
...order to avoid the uncertainties and tolls of the sea voyage via the Canal. Some oil for Japan was already being transported across Mexico by rail. Last week Mexicans tried to borrow money in the U. S. to expand rail lines leading across Mexico's throat to Salina Cruz from single to triple track. A Japanese dream is of an eventual pipeline...