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Last Word. In the welter of rumor, one explanation floated to the top. The explanation: Hudson and the Navy had bickered over Navy's intent to shift the arsenal away from mass production and to turn it into a gigantic repair shop and manufacturer of "custom-built" Navy products. According to this version the Navy had highhandedly settled the argument by its Commando raid...
...overseas hats. Custom says "Square that hat." Bot they'd look cute squared...
...reversed by worry was well shown by a nervous young woman who one day received a menacing letter from the income-tax collector. This so frightened her that . . . she took to her bed and vomited day & night for a week. She stopped only when . . . I went to the Custom House and appeased Uncle Samuel with...
...might have said that "almost all" (instead of "many") officers think Kimmel and Short's immediate dismissal was both just and sufficient punishment. It may well be that future historians will blame Pearl Harbor less on the luckless commanders than on national overoptimism, complacency, isolationist psychology and the custom of getting tight on Saturday night...
...rich and poor, wandering from house to house swinging red and green lanterns from poles, singing for candy and food. "Joy, oh joy," they would sing, "the Sultan's daughter is wearing a robe of bright scarlet red, bright lemon yellow. Oh, give to me as is your custom, and a very happy New Year to you." Now there is war: parents will not let their children out in the blackout; villagers do not like to give away any of their expensive, rationed food...