Word: rangoon
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...problem of distances can be judged by the fact that if a map of the U. S. were superimposed on the map overleaf it would just about cover the area shown. Roughly Rangoon would correspond to Seattle, Guam to Boston, Sumatra to Southern California, and Florida to New Guinea. The distance from the Japanese naval base on Hainan to the heart of Borneo approximates the air distance from Fargo, N. Dak. to New Orleans, and the distance from Singapore to Manila that from Salt Lake City to Detroit...
Last autumn Crown Prince Anthony unexpectedly married a certain Kathleen Hudden at Rangoon, Burma. The petulant Raja was not long in letting it be known that he considered Miss Hudden a nobody. It was too much like the marriage of his two daughters. It indicated that the Crown Prince lacked the tough, buccaneering spirit of the Brookes' fighting ancestors...