Word: siberias
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After World War I, as a temporary major and intelligence officer for Major General William S. Graves's expeditionary force en route to Siberia, he was one of a group entertained at a dinner by Jap officers. Eichelberger had seen no combat service in Europe, was short of medals. To keep him from being out-spangled by his Jap hosts, a brother officer insisted on lending him some campaign bars. The Japs were properly impressed...
...them was Henry Pu Yi, ex-Emperor of the ex-state of Manchukuo; he was a Russian prisoner. Another was Inner Mongolia's roly-poly Prince Teh (full name Teh-mu-chu-keh-lung-lu-pu), whose arid realm is the shortest international high way between Soviet Siberia and Peking...
...latest mechanical brain, and a snorting brontosaurus. Oldtime Goddard-admirers at the American Weekly say that his secret was his ability to believe anything that made a good story. It was a big help that most of the things he wanted to believe happened in remote villages in Siberia, China and the Balkans...
...moving its fighting manpower and an unprecedented mass of weapons for the kill. Vast areas of industrial Japan were in ruins from bombing. A more & more hermetic blockade from sea and air was closing in. In Okinawa the U.S. forces were only 325 miles from the home archipelago. From Siberia fell the lengthening shadow of Russia. Cried Premier Kantaro Suzuki: Japan's crisis "is the greatest since the Mongolian invasion...
...professors' toughest current problems is weather. Because Superfortress folk could get no weather reports from Siberia, where Japanese weather makes up, highflying B-29s had to be sent dangerously far up the Chinese coast and into the interior on weather-charting trips. To assist in this risky business, Dr. Helmut E. Landsberg, University of Chicago meteorologist, assigned experts to develop radio-sondes, dropped by parachute, to pick up vital ground-level weather data. When perfected, they will considerably bolster predictions of Air Force forecasters in the Marianas...