Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prome, where General H. R. L. G. Alexander had, to some extent, refitted his battered British Imperials after their retreat from Rangoon. Last week they had to retreat again. They abandoned Prome, but they were still between the Japs and the valuable oilfields of Burma's Irrawaddy Valley...
Thus, last week, the first compulsory migration in U.S. history set out for Manzanar, in California's desolate Owens Valley. In the cavalcade were some 300 Japanese aliens and Nisei-U.S. citizens of Japanese blood. They were part of the first mass evacuation from the forbidden strip of West Coast land which Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt has made a military zone (TIME, March...
...first emigrants to Manzanar were Japanese plumbers, carpenters, mechanics who will help build the desert city. Wives and children will follow later. Some projects with which the Army may keep its guests busy: laying broad-gauge track on the railway down the valley; driving a highway across the Sierras (nearest all-weather crossing is 400 miles away); farming. They will earn from $50 to $94 a month, with $15 deducted for living expenses. All they forfeit is their freedom. They cannot leave the camp without permission...
Last week, from bombed and suddenly excited Port Moresby, came a strange tale about Finschhafen. According to the story, the Japs at Finschhafen had found guides to lead them through the jungles* toward airdrome sites in the Markham Valley. With missionaries or their native pupils for guides, tough Jap troops might even find a way 200 miles through the jungles and over the mountains to Port Moresby by land. According to the story, the Lutherans had abandoned their coastal missions and retired to the jungles. In one mission house Australian militia found Nazi arm bands and pennants...
...other side of the fence completely. A meandering, rhapsodic flowering of the old-fashioned W. C. Handy type of blues, Blues in the Night promises to take its place beside St. Louis Blues as a classic. Unlike the Handy songs, it did not spring from Mississippi Valley soil, but was machined to order for a Warner Brothers movie by two Tin Pan Alley veterans. Curly-haired Harold Arlen, composer of the unforgettable Stormy Weather, did the music; 32-year-old Johnny Mercer, the words. After hearing the song, the Warners promptly changed the film's title from New Orleans...