Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jap buying increases, R. R. C. can still protect itself. When the price stays above the legal 20? for a reasonable period (two or three weeks) R. R. C. may invoke its contract with the Dutch-British rubber cartel, International Rubber Regulations Committee, which controls 97% of the world supply. I. R. R. C. will then be obliged to boost its quotas to the U. S., send the price down to where R. R. C. can enter the market again. This week, unscared R. R. C. announced that it would buy another 180,000 tons of rubber next year...
Early this year the Japanese attempted to give Alcott a physical tossing around. Jap terrorists tried to drag him out of a rickshaw in the American Defense Zone of the International Settlement, but he escaped through an alley. Since then he has used a Packard with bulletproof glass, toted a gun. Busy as a bird dog, Alcott serves as cable editor of the China Press between broadcasts, improvises his scripts from news flashes that come over his desk. Married recently to a White Russian he met in the Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs...
Known in naval slang as the "Jap Babies" because they were designed and calibred in anticipation of Japan's walkout on the 1936 London Naval Conference, Britain's new battleships are armed with ten 14-in. guns in one two-gun and two four-gun turrets. They shoot 1,560-lb. shells, claim to have greater range and hitting power than earlier British 15-inchers, to be only slightly inferior to foreign 16-inchers. Their speed is over 30 knots, seven more than that of the Nelson and Rodney, completed in 1927 and hitherto Britain's most...
...proponents of the $665,000,000 naval bill afraid of a Jap-German coalition attacking us simultaneously in both oceans? The answer to this is, again in the words of Major Eliot, that "considering further the extreme difficulty of coordinating with efficiency the operations of the forces of a great alliance as against a single determined power . . . we may well rest content with a degree of naval strength which enables us to be superior to any one enemy or possible coalition which may menace us on either side." If the Navy is worried about getting from one ocean...
Nature articles of spirituality: statesman articles of imagination. His ancestry Watertown, Mass 1632. Stuart Thereison's Nature articles Last Rose N. Y. Times Dec. 5, 39: Xmas Night Stars N. Y. Sun Jan 5, 1940: "His Naval plan that nearly prevented the World and Jap Wars" accd'g to Navy Leagues of London and U.S.A. in N. Y. Wld-Telg'm July 10, 39. N. Y. Her-Trib Feb 20, 39 edit'i pp like many of his articles have nat'l radio repetition by the commentators. Not only is he a correct and influential scientist (his interview in Nature...