Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Revenge. Reading of the calculated cruelties, remembering the scrupulously fair treatment given to Jap prisoners, the U.S. people veritably groaned for revenge. Kentucky's Representative Andrew J. May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, called on the entire Fleet to steam into Tokyo harbor and blow the city to bits. Cried Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "We'll hold the rats responsible - from the Emperor down to the lowest ditchdigger - for a million years...
...Navy views the Pacific (General MacArthur dissents), this campaign has been forced upon the U.S. by the caution of the Japanese Fleet, geography, and the development of modern weapons-particularly aircraft. The Pacific Fleet dares not steam straight across 5,000 miles of ocean through shoals of Japanese submarines, past the airfields in the Marshalls and the Carolines, and attempt to land an invasion force on the shores of Mindanao, in the Philippines. Nor, apparently, does it care to concentrate on MacArthur's Southwest Pacific route. The Navy must secure bases in its rear as it moves...
...London Daily Express dropped a few sentimental tears last fortnight over the "muddy scar" that had been made on the grounds by bulldozers and steam shovels, "advancing like a serpent of destruction, leaving a hideous trail. ..." The Ministry of Works and Planning was not touched. Coldly, it said that in times like these, the main thing was to get the coal. They were getting it, at the rate of 25,000 tons a week...
Somewhere on the seven seas a 19-year-old Navy fireman was inside a minesweeper's boiler, chipping off scale, when somebody turned on the steam. Three times the boy plunged at the "curtain of steam and boiling water," across the only exit, twice collided with an electric fan before he got out. When he reached a hospital ship an hour and a half later, he was probably the most severely burned man on medical record. Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire had scorched 55% of Coast Guardsman Clifford Johnson's body, and his survival was considered...
...contains altogether 159 of the delicate lunacies, the scenes of bizarre domestic confusion exquisitely rendered with a crow quill pen which have made The New Yorker's George Price one of the most popular of U.S. comic artists. One industrious hobby ist is shown completing a parlor-sized steam engine right in the parlor it is sized to fit. His wife wanly observes: "Some times I even wish he'd get interested in another woman." Another character, the father of a crowded and bewildered family, is at last able to explain to them the curio which has long...