Word: tropicalism
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...noon, and the tropic sun beat down on placid Macassar, in the Celebes, deep in the heart of The Netherlands Indies. Macassar had served the Jap well as an inner base through which to funnel supplies to forward areas. Last week there were six medium-sized cargo vessels in Macassar Harbor and a cruiser for protection. Suddenly the sky was darkened by a flock of fat-bellied Liberators, and a rain of explosives-incendiaries to one-ton bombs-fell on town and harbor. The Wilhelmina and Juliana docks burst into flame. A 2,000-pounder cracked the cruiser squarely...
...dubious quality. But since ballot-box stuffing was general for all contestants, the poll did represent a rude cross section of New York City's Latin American opinion. And that opinion (with some 200,000 Spanish-speaking inhabitants, New York is the biggest Latin city north of the Tropic of Cancer) is undoubtedly passionately informed...
...guide airmen stranded in tropic jungles, the Army last week brought out a new book, Jungle and Desert Emergencies, to go in their bail-out kits...
...from a plastic canteen. In testing plastics for canteens, the Army Quartermaster Corps set higher standards than previous materials could meet. Tests include freezing the canteen while 90% full of water, dropping it ten feet onto concrete, tasting and smelling distilled water kept in the canteen 24 hours at tropic heat...
...TROPIC MOON-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace...