Word: shelterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunckel had visited Mindoro in 1930. Said he, with a characteristic nervous tic of the left eye: "It's like a saucer tilted toward the sea. High and difficult mountains shelter it. This is the dry season, but clouds generally overhang the mountains...
Temporary Shelter. Until Germany's defeat, Lend-Lease supplies to Britain will be continued at the present rate, about $5 billion a year. But immediately after V-E day, Lend-Lease will be whittled down to about 43% of this sum. The new V-E schedule will supply war materials needed by Britain to continue the fight against Japan. In addition, Lend-Lease goods aimed at easing the hard lot of the war-weary British civilians will then be made available in larger quantities. The two principal items for civilians: 1) more foodstuffs to implement the dreary diet Britons...
...refusal to let even catastrophe disturb his stout routine. In a club a testy gentleman behind whose favorite armchair a bomb has just torn a gaping hole in floor and ceiling reproves an anxious flunkey: "I'm perfectly aware of that." A lady, calmly knitting in the shelter of the two walls of her house that still stand, replies to a curious passerby: "Yes, since 1940. I wasn't going to let Hitler crow that...
...wages on Saipan and Tinian have been fixed at a standard level of 35 to 50? a day, plus food, clothing, shelter. That is enough for the Jap, Korean and Chamorro laborers to buy U.S. cigarets (at 7? a pack),* cloth, soap, toilet paper, shampoo, dark glasses, and occasional candy bars-all covered by rigid price ceilings...
Road to Tokyo. Today hundreds of vessels-boats, warships,' cargo carriers, combat transports-crawl across the Manus lagoon, which is big enough to shelter all the navies of the world. A 300-ft. pier is constantly thronged with Navy personnel waiting water-taxi service to their ships. Trucks, jeeps, weapon carriers move from the docking area onto a three-lane road of coral rock, called "Victory Highway," which invades the hills...