Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wait & Speculate. While the U.S. public waited for the final truth about the Yalta conference, it could speculate on the import of the Kurils deal. In the Kurils are 6,140 square miles of islands shrouded by fog and volcanic smoke, bleak and thinly populated, without important natural resources. But the islands have great strategic importance. By their acquisition, Russia had pushed farther east into the North Pacific, was now smack astride the short Alaskan air route from the U.S. to the Far East. Paramu-shiro, a Japanese air and naval outpost in the northern Kurils, was frequently bombed...
Fire in the Valley. Down in the valley, perhaps one kilometer toward the city from us, several peasant homes are on fire, and the woods on the opposite side of the valley are aflame. Over the city, clouds of smoke are rising. A procession of people begins to stream up the valley from the city. The crowd thickens. Their steps are dragging, their faces blackened. Many are bleeding or have suffered burns. We give them first aid and bring them into the chapel. Our bandages and drugs are soon gone...
...Seven thousand packinghouse workers-breadwinners for 35,000-are on strike. Chimneys that usually belch clouds of smoke emit only a weak little puff now & then. The resounding thud of a sledge on an animal's forehead is missing. No blood runs on killing floors. The lonesome watchmen make their rounds in silence. To leeward there is no smell...
...carrier [Franklin'] was turned into a floating inferno. . . . Chaplain O'Callahan left his battle station . . . to go to the blazing flight deck. There he ministered to the wounded and dying of all faiths . . . . Though wounded . . . he continued his life-saving efforts in spite of suffocating smoke and searing heat...
...natives of Okinawa are about as nonneurotic as any people in the world. So reported Navy Psychiatrist Lieut. Commander James Clark Moloney, who studied the mental states of Okinawans while the battle smoke still hung heaviest...