Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paradise lies to the west. Across the mountains there is a rolling country of bamboo, rubber plantations, tin mines: a country divided by a network of good roads, cut up by rice paddies, full of people and not beasts. It is washed by the quiet Malacca Strait, sheltered by the long Island of Sumatra...
...ship's communication system. One plane is circling around. It's now at 300 or 400 yards, approaching us from the port side. It's coming closer headon, and I see a torpedo drop. A watcher shouts, 'Stand by for torpedo,' and the tin fish is streaking directly...
...characteristics of a fortress except arms. And a fleet of bombers, based upon the interior plateau, could dominate-if means could be found to supply them-every strategic point on the continent except the Panama Canal defense zone 2,000 miles to the north." Now top tin source for the U.S., Bolivia ordered added precautions against sabotage of U.S.-bound metals shipments...
Target & Tactics. Japan hit Pearl Harbor in order to reduce the striking power of the U.S. Fleet beyond Manila. Japan wants the rich (oil, tin, rubber, etc.) Netherlands East Indies. But the path to the South China Sea is watched by many policemen. Headed southward, Japan will have to pass Manila, with its complement of bombers. She must risk a full-out attack on the Philippine defenses or bypass them...
...Tin. Malaya supplies 75% of world tin; U.S. stocks total some 140,000 tons, more than a year's supply. Bolivia, source of 16% of world tin, can never quite supply all the U.S. needs...