Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London a British spokesman explained how this shortage was putting a crimp in Allied naval action: "Without an umbrella of protecting planes from carriers or land bases, warships would be at the mercy of Japanese aircraft from dozens of bases...
...demonstration took place in Rangoon. Part of the international volunteer air force had been assigned by the Chinese to hold an umbrella over the ocean inlet of the Burma Road. Another group (including a onetime TIME Inc. office boy, John Newkirk) protected Kunming, the inland terminus. On Dec. 23, the Japanese came over Rangoon for the first time, lost six bombers to the Flying Tigers who lost four planes, two pilots...
...history. Stage for the show was the huge Carnegie-Illinois mill (U.S. Steel subsidiary) in Gary, Ind. As Army engineers and civilians watched, a black smoke belched from 20 furnace stacks and from 20 locomotives crisscrossing the mill yard. Soon the plant was hidden under a black smoke umbrella...
Evidence of Things Unseen. When the train bearing Author West and her husband made its first stop in Yugoslavia, an elderly white-haired man trotted along the platform, calling softly: "Anna! Anna! Anna!" It was raining, and "he held an open umbrella not over himself but at arm's length. He had not brought it for himself, but for the beloved woman he was calling. He did not lose hope when he found her nowhere in all the long train, but turned and trotted all the way back, calling still with anxious sweetness: "Anna! Anna! Anna!" Says Author West...
Colombia. In Colombia, bootblacks shine your shoes with orange peel, everybody always carries an umbrella, people consume "fantastic quantities of Scotch" at $7 a bottle, and are so polite that they call North Americans misteres instead of gringos. President Dr. Eduardo Santos is a newspaperman; the Foreign Minister (Dr. Luis Lopez de Mesa) is a psychological novelist. The first Colombian Author Gunther met was an interviewer who asked: "Do you think that intellectual fermentations, as represented by the left-wing element of the first phase of the first New Deal, are on the whole more beneficial to democracy than otherwise...