Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloria then roared across the East China Sea to strike Shanghai where it left 29 dead, 200,000 homeless...
...three members of the A.F.L. Seafarers International Union were sneaked aboard the grey and white freighter Steel Flyer. Non-union stevedores had loaded 6,200 tons of raw sugar aboard it. At 9:10 p.m. one night, to the chagrin of the strikers, it sailed away, bound for the East Coast of the U.S., where Joe Ryan's A.F.L. longshoremen-long sworn enemies of Harry Bridges-would willingly unload it. It was the first tied-up ship to sail since the strike began three months...
Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, potent Roman Catholic orator who has struck many a telling blow in the spiritual battle of East & West, showed little respect for his chief ideological foe. "Stalin," said Sheen, "is possibly the most stupid politician in the history of the world...
Retired Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, once something of a menace in Pacific waters himself, showed even less respect for his colleague, the atom bomb. "I don't think the people on the East Coast . . . quite realize what went on in the Pacific," the Bull told a reunion dinner of the Greenwich, Conn. "Old Twelfth" Artillery. "I don't think we had more than 500,000 or 750,000 men [out there, but] with those 750,000 we contained somewhere between two and three million Japanese, and notwithstanding the dropping of the atomic bomb-and that...
Ford went right to work. His Middle East man, Walter McKee, after talks with Israeli purchasing agents, sounded out the possibilities of an assembly plant near Haifa. The plant would import U.S. foremen and technicians to train unskilled Israeli labor in U.S. production techniques, wherever possible use Israel-made goods for parts...