Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain. Not only had the Arizona been sunk, as Navy Secretary Knox acknowledged after a quick survey of the Pearl Harbor wreckage 52 weeks ago. The Oklahoma was perhaps beyond salvaging. The California, West Virginia and Nevada were either badly damaged or aground. (A ship in the bottom of a shallow harbor can be floated.) The other three battleships in Pearl Harbor last Dec, 7, the Tennessee, the Maryland and the Pacific Fleet flagship Pennsylvania, were put out of action temporarily...
...Four task forces were not at Pearl Harbor. Their carriers and cruisers were more valuable than the ancient battleships which rolled over or settled to the bottom .of the harbor. Said Admiral Thomas C. Hart: "No one should have given high valuation to such old and very slow capital ships." Said young Navy officers: "The Japs lifted the Navy from the 17-knot class to the 25-knot class...
...Pearl Harbor's greatest revelation was America's unpreparedness for war, its most satisfactory aspect was, v the U.S. ability to act in the face of disaster. Today Pearl Harbor is one of the most strongly defended fortresses on earth. The Arizona still sits on the bottom near Ford Island, a mute monument which many a sailor apostrophizes thus: "You bastards, you haven't paid enough for that yet." The ugly, rusty keels of the Oklahoma and the old Utah are still turned up to the bright Hawaiian sun, just as they rolled bottom-side...
When the picture reaches its climactic reels of action and offensive battle, filmed by Marine Sergeant Arthur Steckler, ex-MOT camera trainee, audiences should feel the same brave emotion as Private Charlie Bulis, USMC, crouched for the first time in the bottom of an invasion-barge, whispering to himself, "This...
Grams Says. Until recently, when he went off to war, "Young Sam" (Francis' son) worked in various Journal departments. Once he decided that page numbers cluttered up the top of a streamlined page, should be at the bottom instead. A few days later he admitted to City Editor Arthur Crookham: "Grams says she doesn't like it." The numbers went back...