Word: typhoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typhoon (named Gloria by playful U.S. weathermen) hit Okinawa July 23. For eight hours it lashed the big island, registering a velocity of 135 m.p.h. before the wind gauge blew down. The toll: 38 dead, 252 injured, 42,502 buildings, including 75% of all Air Force installations, destroyed or "50% demolished." It was the worst Okinawa typhoon since Louise in October...
Meanwhile, on Camiguin Island in the Mindanao Sea, Hibok-Hibok volcano erupted last week for the first time since April 30, 1871. Thousands of refugees fled the molten blanket of lava, the smothering volcanic ash and dust. In Manila, a typhoon roared out of the Pacific and lashed the city with torrential rains, paralyzing daily life and restricting traffic in half the capital to bamboo rafts...
President Quirino summoned those cabinet members who could reach the presidential palace. To the victims of Hibok-Hibok and of the typhoon, they diverted the $2,000,000 intended for the Huks...
...Wind. It was a disaster that had made Haussermann a miner. In 1911 a typhoon swept northern Luzon, flooded the tiny Benguet Co.'s only mill, bankrupted the owners, and left the Bank of the Philippine Islands with a worthless batch of loans. To retrieve its stake, the bank picked Haussermann, Benguet's lawyer, who had come to the islands in 1898 as a second lieutenant, had stayed to become an assistant attorney general in the new Philippine's government...
Please understand that this is only one straw in the gridiron typhoon now howling around the Union rotunda. Local presses have used it as a springboard to boom Harman as a leading candidate to succeed Dick Harlow on Soldiers field come spring practice some six weeks hence. Everyone recalls the two spectacular victories over the Crimson that the Berlian maestro perpeirated...