Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...follower of the Generalissimo. Some 20 Chinese councilmen run the municipal departments, amid a plenitude of teacups, basins, hot towels and hot-water thermos jugs (the Chinese believe in working comfortably). You still see the picturesque bearded Sikh policemen directing traffic, but they will be repatriated. U.S. MPs and Shore Patrols are around, but they concentrate on buildings where Americans live...
...China the U.S. Marines were busy at a traditional chore: carrying out a tidying-up expedition on a foreign shore. The forces involved numbered some 53,-ooo-almost three times the size of the whole Marine Corps in 1939. They were the Third Amphibious Corps, who had been landed on the coast of northern China (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Marine Smith sailed south on the Lexington, was aboard her when she was sunk in the Coral Sea. Rescued and taken back to Pearl Harbor, he was put aboard the North Carolina. Then he got shore duty, and became a member of Carlson's Raiders...
...active and laid-up auxiliary vessels, 8,000 aircraft, 40 big & little Atlantic and Pacific bases, 97 air stations, air-material centers and air-gunnery schools in the U.S. The whole would cost the U.S. an estimated $3,525,000,000 a year, exclusive of new shipbuilding or shore works. It was a "very substantial" sum indeed, but in terms of the price of victory, said the Navy, it was "cheap...
...long run, Filipino businessmen knew that reconstruction is more a political than an industrial problem. Will the U.S. advance funds to shore up the bankrupt Philippine Treasury and grant long-term credits for the purchase of machinery? More important, will Philippine independence, scheduled for June 1, 1946, mean that the U.S. will throw up a tariff wall against the import of sugar, tobacco and other products into the U.S. market? If this happens, many a Filipino businessman feels that reconstruction will be impossible...