Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Iva was in Tokyo, either caring for an ailing aunt (according to her) or studying medicine (according to the Government). In November 1943, she went on the air with her slangy, vernacular American, identified herself as "your favorite enemy, Orphan Annie...
...since the dread approach of the Spanish Armada had the people of Penzance seen so many massed ships. In one day, the blue waters of Mounts Bay were agitated by 60 British, French and Dutch warships; the air reverberated with 21-gun salutes. It was the start of week-long Western Union naval maneuvers known as Exercise Verity...
British battleship Anson, the British carriers Implacable, Victorious and Theseus, the French carrier Arromanches, three British and five French cruisers, and 21 destroyers and destroyer escorts-headed in convoy for the Bay of Biscay. Submarines launched dummy torpedoes, French and British carriers exchanged air strikes, bombers roared overhead. Meanwhile, smaller craft of the Belgian navy joined other Western Union ships in mine-sweeping operations in Weymouth...
...AIR POWER against communism, under all circumstances, to hold key coastal and offshore positions-Japan, Korea, Formosa, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore. Militarily, this program is within present U.S. capabilities. It would not save Asia, but it would save the Pacific, at least temporarily...
...report that he had offered President Truman the use of Puerto Rico as a laboratory for experiments in Point 4 aid to undeveloped areas. In succeeding days, Muñoz had long talks with Secretary of the Interior "Cap" Krug and Under Secretary Oscar Chapman. He conferred about air safety with the CAB, about dope smuggling with the Treasury's Narcotics Bureau, about his island's housing and education needs with interested Congressmen...