Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, the picture of the Iwo Jima flag raising, which had already made almost every front page in the land, was turning up again in fancy, full-page color in U.S. Sunday papers. It was easily the most widely printed photograph of World War II. One Senator proposed it for a 3? stamp; a Congressman wanted it used as a model for a national monument...
Along with him came the full story of the first flag raising on Mt. Suribachi (Rosenthal's was the second) and the bad luck of Marine Photographer Louis R. Lowery. On D-plus-four, Sergeant Lowery, the only photographer present, scrambled to the top of 546-ft. Suribachi, took 56 pictures of marines raising a 3-ft. American flag under heavy fire. A Jap grenade landed at Lowery's feet; he ducked, tumbled 50 feet down the side of the volcano, wrenched his side, smashed his camera. For all his pains, his shot of Iwo's first...
...knockout blow against Japan. That blow would not be delivered in one swift assault; it might be many long months before it was struck. Meanwhile, the U.S. would go on living in a war economy that would be eased only a little after Germany ran up the white flag...
...investors had accomplished no more than to hike stock prices from their low after Singapore's fall to only a few points above their values at the time war began in 1939. To most investors this modest recovery did not seem like a runaway market. But the red flag waved by Eccles was a signal for a tactical retreat...
...Worcester, Mass., the red flag flew over the city hall. Thanks to radio station WTAG, it was "U.S.S.R. Week...