Word: paramushiro
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...soon get fast-hopping company. Last week Civil Aeronautics Board examiners recommended that Northwest Airlines, Inc. should be given a transpacific route. The examiners, whose findings are usually followed by CAB, recommended that Northwest fly the adventurous Great Circle route from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Manila via Alaska, Paramushiro, Tokyo and Shanghai. As Northwest now flies from New York to Minneapolis (TIME, Jan. 1), it would thus have the first direct service from New York to the Orient...
...Tokyo. (In a historic 19 days-Jan. 31 to Feb. 19-the throbbing Navy, spread-eagling the Pacific, supported landings at Nasugbu on Luzon, bombarded Manila Bay, supported landings at Mariveles and Corregidor, made a carrier task force attack on Tokyo, supported the landings on Iwo Jima and bombarded Paramushiro-an area of operations covering 860,000 square miles...
Almost 2,000 miles to the west, British carriers from .across the Indian Ocean flew off aircraft to blast the Pangkalanbrandan refinery on Sumatra. Northeast, 3,000 miles from Luzon, a U.S. Ninth Fleet task force stood in to the fogbound coast of Paramushiro, where the Japs' Kuril Islands nudge Soviet Kamchatka, and laid heavy fire on harbor installations at Suribachi...
...Returning from Paramushiro, the pilot of a twin-engined Navy Ventura bomber found that flak had holed the hydraulic-pressure system; there was not enough fluid left to lower the landing flaps. A machinist's mate used the crew's hoard of orange juice and coffee to refill the hydraulic reservoir. It worked...
...Pacific, U.S. air power thundered through the islands. Land-based Liberators bombed Truk for the first time. Long-range, Aleutian-based Army and Navy planes pecked at the Kuriles. One lone Army Liberator swung past Paramushiro all the way to Matsuwa, 1,100 miles north of Tokyo...