Word: teakwood
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...Round a teakwood table, in the guarded secrecy of a Chiefs-of-Staff strategy conference, the Congress and Moslem League leaders talked with the three-man British Cabinet delegation, trying to work out a compromise for the future government of India. The Viceroy's Executive Council (including its four British members) offered to resign to clear the way for an interim government. Hindu Nehru got the green light to become the next Congress Party president, replacing Moslem Azad, whom Jinnah bitterly regards as a traitor to Islam...
...bypassed by the Mars Force), a Japanese suicide garrison had had enough after 28 days of siege by the Chinese 38th Division. Last week it was annihilated in an attempt at a breakout. Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan, theater commander, tramped through the smoldering ruins of Bhamo's teakwood fortress, called it one of the strongest Jap positions in north Burma...
Noel Coward, on a morale-building tour of South Africa, nettled Afrikaner Nationalist Politico Paul Sauer by his imperial arrival in Cape Town. Egg-bald Sauer took the teakwood floor of the House of Assembly to fume: "The Governor of our sister state [Southern Rhodesia's Sir Evelyn Baring] traveled in a small coupe compartment but the crooner (a crooner is someone who sings as if something were wrong with his throat) came in a special coach. Have we lost our balance to such an extent that we make heroes of film actors and music-hall luminaries...
Besides this staff, Higgins has some plant, some materials and some promises. The plant includes a $100,000 shipyard structure which could be used for an aircraft layout room and office building; the materials are a three-year supply of lauan teakwood and pine lumber for plywood; the promises are that the War Department will supply most of the needed machinery. A. J. expects no labor shortage, plans to hire 80% women (50-50 white and colored). Lastly, he has a bagful of tricks which have already helped him win the Army & Navy "E." Samples: To fill a rush boat...
...three weeks General Stilwell had led his little band through Burma's parched thickets, teakwood forests and steaming jungles, across the Chindwin River, up mountain trails over 7,000-ft. Saijapao Pass and down into India. And it was Uncle Joe, oldest man in the crowd, who always led them. He acted as company commander, mess sergeant, guide, gun bearer, nurse. He kept the company at a dogged, fixed pace of 105 steps a minute; his men called it "The Stilwell Stride...