Word: archipelago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly married couple left Honolulu last week for a year's honeymoon. Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. R. Hill, who are naturalists as well as newlyweds, were going to lonely Koror Island in the Palau Archipelago. There their main job will be to turn a Japanese weather station into the first of the Pacific War Memorial's chain of scientific centers. The Hills will also set up a tide gauge for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. (Incidentally, they will take care of a colony of wasps from Zanzibar which, it is hoped, will check a plague of coconut-eating...
...Indonesian archipelago looked to Matty as if it would soon gain its Independence from the Dutch. What the budding republic needed, he decided, was a man like Matty Fox to brace up its economy. The Indonesians, who thought themselves friendless, were enthusiastic...
...rubber), which all but shut U.S. business out of the islands' billion-dollar-a-year (at '48 prices) trade. Matty Fox is determined to keep them from regaining their hold. Last week he was making the rounds of U.S. companies, inviting them to step right through the archipelago's open door-when it opens...
...shipping. Strong winds and tides pumping through the narrow Straits of Dover have not only built up the Goodwin's seaward side into an almost vertical wall, but driven ships into the sucking grasp of their sands. At low tide, the Goodwins are a desolate, brownish-grey archipelago; between 1824 and 1854, determined cricketers sloshed through four matches on the Goodwins. The record does...
...Eden. In the travel-bureau ads, Hawaii is the Garden of Eden. As far as oceanographers are concerned, it is a well-nigh totally submerged volcanic range spread across 2,000 miles of ocean. Its economic orbit includes six chief islands, of which Kauai is furthest west. The archipelago's commercial heart is the city of Honolulu (pop. 267,000), on Oahu, which is Eden-with a touch of Indianapolis...