Unit 5: Part 1 Vocabulary

...and the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, paused at the door of a rich man’s house in Koi, the city’s western suburb, and prepared to unload a handcart full of things he had evacuated from town in fear of the massive B-29 raid which everyone expected Hiroshima to suffer.

Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition—a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next—that spared him.

Hiroshima had been getting such warnings almost every night for weeks, for at that time the B-29s were using Lake Biwa, northeast of Hiroshima, as a rendezvous point, and no matter what city the Americans planned to hit, the Super-fortresses streamed in over the coast near Hiroshima.

...for, according to Japanese custom, when a person falls sick and goes to a hospital, one or more members of his family go and live there with him, to cook for him, bathe, massage, and read to him, and to offer incessant familial sympathy, without which a Japanese patient would be miserable indeed.

At fifty, he was healthy, convivial, and calm, and he was pleased to pass the evenings drinking whiskey with friends, always sensibly and for the sake of conversation.

CIVILIAN DEFENSE DEMONSTRATION
Auxiliary Fireman
Auxiliary Police
Junior Police
Motor Carps
Medical Units
Canteen
Emergency Public Works Corps

The great news you have heard today from General Eisenhower does not give you the license to settle back in your rocking chairs and say "Well, that does it. We've got 'em on the run. Now we can start the celebration."

The next afternoon, to open the two-month drive, the greatest financial undertaking in the history of the world, 3,000 men and women of the armed forces, trained Army dogs, jeeps, trucks and war material paraded down New York’s Fifth Avenue.

Half a million salesmen in New York City alone, millions more throughout the country, began a canvass of American citizens, who already are purchasing $4,600,000,000 in bonds by payroll savings deducted from their collective annual income of $140,000,000,000.

Half a million salesmen in New York City alone, millions more throughout the country, began a canvass of American citizens, who already are purchasing $4,600,000,000 in bonds by payroll savings deducted from their collective annual income of $140,000,000,000.

From July 1, 1940, to August 31, 1943, war expenditures totaled about $124,000,000,000.

The breakdown figure of $71,000,000,000 used for war in 1942 will be increased 80 per cent if estimates of $106,000,000,000 needed for military expenses during 1943 are correct.

The first two War Bond drives added $31,500,000,000 to Government receipts.