Word: tutuila
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Pago à Go-Go. When the presidential party touched down for a 115-minute refueling stop at Pago Pago (pronounced pongo pongo or pahgo pahgo) on the American Samoan isle of Tutuila next day, nearly one-fourth of its 22,000 people turned out, carrying umbrellas and banyan branches against the blazing sun. Along the tapa-cloth welcome mat, 50 bare-chested chiefs and their wives took part in the Pago à Go-Go, draping the President with ulas-Samoan leis-made of shells. In an even more honorific ritual, the Johnsons were offered coconut shells filled with a bitter...
...military aggression all nations in this Hemisphere (see p. 24). He helped the President tighten the screws on the Japanese by banning oil shipments to Japan. He accepted from the Japanese apologies and the offer of indemnity for the apparently accidental bombing of the 14-year-old gunboat Tutuila, a 370-ton tub which the Navy has stationed on the Yangtze River at Chungking. He recognized for the U.S. the exiled London Government of Czechoslovakia. He accused the German Government of barefaced impudence in its note to Mexico threatening reprisals unless the Mexicans protested the U.S. economic black list...
...Trespassing" signs on eleven islands and one bay in the Pacific, Alaska and Caribbean defense areas. After May 14, Culebra Island, off Puerto Rico; Guam, Rose and Tutuila Islands in Samoa; Palmyra, Johnston, Midway, Wake Islands and Kingman Reef (stepping stones between Honolulu's Pearl Harbor and the Philippines); Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii; Kiska and Unalaska Islands, off Alaska, will be forbidden ground to all but U. S. armed forces...
...greater naval importance, but of less immediate political moment, were authorizations of $66,050,000 to improve eight naval air bases gained in last summer's destroyer deal; $8,100,000 to improve the generally unused, strategic base at Tutuila, in Samoa, that lies on the direct route from Hawaii to New Zealand...
...planes. The day after that there were 160 again. The city smoldered. The foreign quarter, Chungking University, Government buildings, the teeming shopping sector-these were the "military objectives" the Japanese announced they had attacked. On the fourth day 54 planes came; on the fifth, 52. The U. S. gunboat Tutuila was narrowly missed. The American Methodist Mission...