Word: ferrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friend the Ferret. The shipowners and Labor Department people in Washington had listened over & over again to what Joe had to say about his seamen...
...four Republican members (others: Maine's Senator Owen Brewster, California's Congressman Bert Gearhart) had hoped to ferret out some damaging facts about Franklin Roosevelt's prewar conduct. To date, they had failed, although they had helped to bring to light damaging evidence of Army and Navy confusion. Most of the material now going into the record, which had already reached 700,000 words, only spelled out verbose repetition...
...first step in dealing with enemy radar is to locate it and determine its wavelength or frequency. This reconnaissance is done by "ferret" planes, specially equipped with electronic "search receivers," which pick up and locate operating enemy radar like stations on a home radio...
...several strange interviews which Jap officials gave to the U.S. press last week, ferret-faced Jap Premier Higashi-Kuni plaintively begged "People of America, won't you forget Pearl Harbor...
...raid had multiple purposes: to ferret out illegal material such as weapons, ammunition, radio transmitters, U.S. uniforms and rations, gasoline; to catch Nazis; to turn up U.S. AWOLs (only a handful); to inhibit black-market operations. A secondary purpose was to test the occupation army's security machinery. It tested very well. Orders for the raid (Codeword: "Tallyho") were distributed three weeks in advance. There were no leaks...