Word: frontierisms
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Coming back from the Oriental sea frontier of the U.S., Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, ace in World War I and now Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air, said when he stopped off at Pearl Harbor: "We can never go back to prewar status. We have to keep permanent bases in the Marianas. Those islands . . . [should be] another Pearl Harbor . . . another Pearl Harbor 3,500 miles west of this place here...
...case of smallpox was flown into Miami-"the first recorded case of a quarantinable disease crossing an international frontier by air." To check up on passengers coming into Miami, Public Health Service officers are now on hand at the airport 24 hours a day. During the year, the Service inspected 14,954 ships, 461,502 passengers and 901,954 seamen to keep disease...
...Sofia radio he was calling upon the Wehrmacht to end the German ordeal by surrendering to the Russians. Meanwhile ABSIE (American Broadcasting Station in Europe) broadcast that the first Russian governor of occupied Germany "has taken up his functions in the East Prussian town of Gumbinnen" near the Lithuanian frontier...
...Seven months before World War II, the President was reported to have made the major (not minor) prophecy that the U.S. frontier was on the Rhine. He denounced the report as "a deliberate lie" and "100% bunk," said its originator was a "boob...
Yugoslavia had plans for expansion in another direction. A source close to Marshal Tito reported that for the present, the old Albanian frontier would remain. Later Albania might unite with a Federated Yugoslavia...