Word: typhoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past four years, poor, typhoon-swept Okinawa has dangled at what bitter Army men call "the logistical end of the line," and some of its commanders have been lax and inefficient. More than 15,000 U.S. troops, whose morale and discipline have probably been worse than that of any U.S. force in the world, have policed 600,000 natives who live in hopeless poverty. When a typhoon (dubbed "Gloria" by meteorologists) swept the island last summer and caused widespread damage, the Army finally investigated the situation. The island's command was shaken up. Major General William W. Eagles, commander...
...materials brought in from the U.S., at a cost of $40,000 apiece). The rest of Okinawa's garrison live in hovels. Complained one young officer: "You get tired after a while of nailing the same piece of tin onto your house, watching it blow off in the typhoon, and then nailing it back." It will take an estimated three years of building, and at least $75 million, before the Okinawa garrison will have adequate housing. (Congress has so far appropriated $58 million...
...capable of taking the Pacific's biggest ships. On the broad runways of Naha airport, rows of new F-80s and F-61s gleam in the sun, while some of the sleek jets whoosh overhead. In the makeshift hangars, mechanics work tirelessly to repair typhoon damages. American soldiers and airmen have begun to regain faith in themselves and in their mission...
Three months after the Communist takeover, the once booming, bustling, bawdy metropolis is dying. Shanghai has been withered by Nationalist blockade, damaged by flood and typhoon, weakened by arrogant Red treatment of its foreign businessmen and consulates. Brisk, bald General Chen Yi, Shanghai's new Red mayor, standing on a platform in front of a huge oil portrait of Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung, told a handpicked group of "Shanghai representatives" what the Communists propose...
...kinds of worries" were in the minds of the refugees, reported the Communist Liberation Daily. "Some even thought the government was trying to chase them away, with the result that they didn't dare accept the flour given to them as relief after the [recent] typhoon, for fear of being obliged to leave Shanghai." To soothe them, a Red directive called for propaganda and education, promised a magnanimous attitude toward refugee landowners if they would "repent of their mistakes and engage in production...