Word: tongas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week I have good news for Subscriber Brown and his friends on Raiatea-and for nearly 3,800 other TIME readers on the other side of the world. For this week subscribers all over the South Pacific-in Australia, New Zealand and Samoa, the Tonga and the Society and the Friendly Islands, New Guinea, New Hebrides and New Caledonia-will start getting our Pacific Edition by air from Honolulu, instead of our Overseas Edition by ship all the way from San Francisco...
There's a fine array of hot music that had most of the audience tapping its feet and wiggling around in its chairs. The first part is native rars tonga and what not, punctuated with plenty of staccato drum beating. The second part is mostly American songs, including "Kansas City Blues" and "Dark Town Strutters Hall...
...some ways, it is the strangest medical school in the world. Many of the students are only one generation removed from cannibalism. They are Fijians, Maoris (from New Zealand), Samoans, natives of the Solomon, Cook, New Hebrides, Tonga, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and a few East Indians...
...months he lived with Fatoia Tufele, king of a group of islands near Pago-Pago-and he still talks about the two beautiful damsels Fatoia provided to fan him as he sat dining on the hot porch of the king's palace. After that he went to Fiji, Tonga. British Samoa and on to China, where he worked three years on the China Press and the Shanghai Times-did special pieces for Reuters, the New York Times, Asia, Travel and the Christian Science Monitor when he wasn't too busy ducking Jap bombs. In 1936 he made...
...effort to cut Allied supply lines in the Pacific, Japan has diverted some of her submarines from fleet opera tions to attacks against Allied merchant shipping. Jap subs have been sighted all along the shipping lanes from the Tonga Islands to the southeast tip of Australia...