Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bloody Baron. Inner Mongolia is the lean twin (some 300,000 sq. mi.) of Outer Mongolia (some 900,000 sq. mi.). In pre-World War I days Outer Mongolia, with its less-than-one-million lama-ruled herds men, was nominally a part of China, actually a Tsarist protectorate...
...Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, had died "in combat with the enemy" was admitted by Tokyo two years ago (TIME, May 31, 1943). U.S. military sources admitted nothing. Last week a Jap war correspondent, captured in northern Luzon, told more of the story: In a twin-engined Jap bomber escorted by 30 fighters, Yamamoto and half a dozen other bigwigs were inspecting Jap-held Pacific islands. Over Kahili airdrome on southern Bougainville, the bomber circled to land and the escort headed back toward Rabaul. At that moment...
...protocol was no more depressing than the furnishings. The meeting room itself with its round table was not so bad, but the twin angels on the backs of each of the Big Three's gilt chairs were hard to bear. So was the décor of Truman's living quarters. Items: liver-colored wallpaper in the living room; still lifes in the dining room-a very dead rabbit, a half cantaloupe and a very red lobster...
Warner Bros. technicians had to protect the big Douglas plant at Santa Monica against twin risks. Within easy periscope sight from the Pacific, it was vulnerable to shells as well as bombs. Forehanded Douglas architects had their camouflage plan ready before Pearl Harbor. The moviemen made miniatures, photographed them from simulated bombing altitudes. Building a dummy airport, phony plant and fake residential subdivision (complete with washing on the clothes lines) took 2½ years, $2½ million. It was duplicated on the plant when war came...
Soon Barmine received a letter from one of his twin sons in Russia: "Dear Papa, they read to us in school the sentence passed on the Trotskyist spies, Tukhachevsky, Yakir, Kork, Uborevich and Feldman. . . . Wasn't it Feldman who used to live in our apartment house?" It was. And Barmine soon became aware that he must pay the usual price for knowing a liquidated man. Soon his comrades in the legation tried to lure him aboard a Russian ship which had unexpectedly appeared in the Piraeus...