Word: westernland
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...Japanese version reproduces virtually every feature of its American models, it turns them into something entirely Japanese. Melvin, Buff and Max, the antlered commentators at the Country Bear Jamboree, speak in the grave basso profundos of Kurosawa samurai. Alice in Wonderland has Oriental features. Frontierland has been turned into Westernland ("The Japanese don't like frontiers," explains a park official), and Main Street has become the World Bazaar...
...after the first two, another lone bomber power-dived in over List from due west. The German batteries set up such a fierce yammering that the newcomer released only two bombs before whirling back over the North Sea. But the whole length of Sylt-the seaplane base down at Westernland, the anti-aircraft towers on the Hindenburg Damm (causeway) connecting the island umbilically with the mainland, and the seaplane base at Hörnum on the southeast tip 20 miles away-began thudding and crackling with bomb and gun explosions. For ten minutes more Herr Schmidt watched the show-biggest...
...home for 500,000 persecuted and unwanted German Jews, last week some few shiploads of Jewish refugees continued to arrive in Manhattan, bringing such few Jews as can manage to escape from Naziland under present harsh conditions. Each Jew who came in last week on the S. S. Westernland, for example, was a human story of almost every overtone from courage to despair, or grief...
...Hugely successful at 45, he had bought Red Star Line lock, stock & barrel from International Mercantile Marine for $1,000,000 last month after practically running that 61-year-old concern off the sea with his cut rates (TIME, Feb. 18). Now that he had added the Pennland and Westernland to his fleet, he might do the same to other old-established lines...
...conference opened, it was announced that Member-elect Bernstein had agreed to up his rates $2.50 one-way, $5 round-trip for the Königstein, Ilsenstein and Gerolstein, charge a minimum of $115 one-way, $207 round-trip for his 16.000-ton German Red Star Liners Pennland and Westernland...