Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan could not afford to let Saipan go. The shots of the U.S., getting closer & closer, were on the target now. When the Navy got Saipan, the next shots could be on the bull's eye-Japan's homeland. Opened by old Matt Perry with blandishments almost a century ago, Japan was on the way to being opened again-with steel. One of the mathematical minds behind that quickening progression was Admiral Spruance...
Shaggy-browed "Bull" Halsey was moving on. In the "Admiral's Cabin," a roomy office on the second floor of a former French barracks in Noumea, there was handshaking and bluff well-wishing. Admiral William F. Halsey had just handed over a command that had once been the toughest in U.S. naval history. The now quiescent South Pacific was going to a top administrative officer-Vice Admiral John Henry Newton, formerly deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet. Said Halsey to his men: ". . . Carry on the smashing South Pacific tradition . . . and may we join up again farther along the road...
...Headlong "Bull" Halsey had forged a powerful weapon in the Solomons, had wielded it with skill, daring, many sulfurous asides (a public-relations officer had finally been assigned to clean up his bullish predictions, screen his football-field bombast). Now once again he would have a chance to forge a weapon, drive it to the heart of the Japanese empire...
...boom was on. Day after day on the New York Stock Exchange last week, stocks surged upward in a roaring, old-fashioned bull market. Brokers sweated ecstatically through two 2,000,000-share days and even one 2,517,340-share day, the busiest in over a year. Typical of the furious buying & selling: 1,111,570 shares changed hands in two hours, and twice during the week the tickers lagged. Up went the Dow-Jones industrial averages to 147.28, highest since May 10, 1940, when the Nazi strike into the Lowlands started the market on a long slide down...
...invasion article appeared a detailed, double-page panoramic drawing showing great Allied fleets of planes and ships hurtling from England toward a section of the French coast which would have been easily recognizable even without the names identifying its chief cities: LE HAVRE, CAEN, CHERBOURG. Explanation of this astonishing bull's-eye: LIFE'S editors, knowing no more than any other laymen about where the invasion would strike, had simply chosen what seemed to them a likely spot. Like the seven other drawings in LIFE'S invasion story, this one had been engraved two months ago, laid...