Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the "China Incident" broke out, Yamashita fought in North China under the command of another Germanophile, General Count Juichi Terauchi. Count Terauchi, who has since visited Germany (see cut), was last week named Supreme Commander of the entire southwestern Pacific theater...
Battle for Time. General Sir Archibald Wavell, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwestern Pacific had a clear sense of the importance of Singapore's battle. Said he last week to the men on Singapore...
...cloths are just as warm, about one-third the price. Instead of a fur parka, the Army prefers one made of tightly woven cotton lined with alpaca, trimmed with wolverine or wolf fur. On such fur, the Army believes, the breath will not freeze. Coyote fur, hitherto regarded by Southwestern ranchers as so much predatory garbage, is now declared by the Army to be almost as good as wolf. Army cold-weather garments cannot be standardized: possible conditions are too variable...
William H. Kelly, of Tuscon, Ariz., as Research Associate in Southwestern American Ethnology; B.A. University of Arizona...
...products formerly imported from Europe (wines, cheeses, anchovies, etc.). The 50% cut on canned-beef tariff (from 6? to 3? per Ib.) aroused the usual speaking-for-the-record opposition by beef-State Congressmen, but it meant little. Said J. Taylor, president of the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association...