Word: island
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These men are laborers used by the U.S. armed forces for minor construction work in 1945 on the island of Tinian. Most of them were of Korean descent, transported to the Marianas for use in the sugar-cane fields. I admired their ability to squat all day while shaping the coral for the dwarf wall they were building. Even during their rest period they would hunker, sophisticated style...
...Nubia and the Sudan-temples, forts, chapels, churches, mosques, tombs, prehistoric wall drawings-will be submerged in the 300-mile-long Nubian lake to be created by the building of the High Dam at Aswan. Rivaling Abu Simbel in historical value is the Greco-Roman temple on Philae Island, gradually built un over earlier ruins beginning in the 3rd century B.C. Philae is already flooded five months of the year by the existing dam at Aswan, and when the first stage of the new High Dam is completed upstream by Soviet engineers and Egyptian workmen in 1965, the island...
MERGER TALKS are going on between Rock Island and Milwaukee railroads. Merger of the two Chicago-based carriers would result in substantial savings in operating costs, form a road with 18,000 miles of track, largest in U.S., and total assets of more than $1 billion...
...field hands. Neither group stayed in the fields. The industrious Chinese moved into real estate, the Japanese into politics. After World War II, the pineapple workers won their fight for a union, and the Democratic Party, with a membership of Orientals and newcomer Caucasians, won a strong position in island government...
...game was marred by frankly partisan officiating. Two Rhode Island referees, who consistently amazed the large homecoming crowd by shouting "our ball" when Brown had possession, also alerted the Bruin goalie when a Crimson threat was brewing, and made several questionable calls...