Word: yokohama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trousers by using the running board and a towel for the ironing board; alto gether saved $375. Then he worked his way across the U.S. to his native North west, stopped at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha office in Seattle and paid $195 for a round-trip ticket to Yokohama, tourist class...
...after the other, hitting targets all over the city. There were big scattered clouds of smoke and flame, some terrific block-long fires. One of the boys said he got an aircraft carrier in construction, that it rolled over right on the ways. Other planes were hitting Kobe, Yokohama and Osaka. They had orders not to bomb the Emperor's palace. Afterwards, from intelligence reports, we heard that more people were killed because of suffocation and inadequate dugouts than by flame or bombs...
Allied prisoners of war at camps in Yokohama and Shishagawa were visited last week by a Tokyo representative of the Red Cross. Conditions: "Comparatively satisfactory." Rations: chiefly rice, with some bread, vegetables and fish. Health: some prisoners were suffering from tropical diseases; "medical treatment is handicapped by a lack of medicaments...
First she was a Dollar luxury liner, helping to carry depression-frustrated millionaires around the world when they wanted to forget it all. As a President liner in 1940 and 1941, she hauled U.S. citizens out of Yokohama and other Oriental hot spots. Before her death in the service of her country, announced last week, the U.S. Army transport President Coolidge had probably carried more tens of thousands of soldiers to Pacific ports than any other vessel. The Navy announced only that she had hit a mine and sunk. Since there were only four casualties out of 4,000 troops...
...Byas could afford not to be a hawker of sensations. In late years it was a rare sight to see the red-faced Scot walk with his heavy cane into the lobby of the Imperial Hotel and sit down with the rumor factors there. He never rushed down to Yokohama to find a friend in the saloon of a luxury liner and ask him to smuggle out an item that would burn up the mails. He always quoted sources, never "informed circles." The only ruse of which he was guilty while he was in Japan was the one by which...