Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, ten years, four months, 21 days after the commander of Patrol Wing Two at Ford Island broadcast: "Air raid, Pearl Harbor! This is no drill," the war between the U.S. and Japan came to an official end. Japan promptly started a nine-day holiday to commemorate 1) the Peace Treaty, 2) Emperor Hirohito's 51st birthday, 3) May Day, 4) Japan's Memorial Day, 5) Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, 6) Children's Day. Headlined Tokyo's Nippon Times: LITTLE SIGNS OF JOY; PEOPLE IN QUANDARY...
...nation's hopes of peace in the Far East. With a plastic fountain pen from his desk set, President Harry Truman scratched his signature to the peace treaty with Japan and wrote in the date: April 15, 1952-just ten years, four months and eight days after Pearl Harbor...
...production rate by 1957, and an eventual expansion to 10.5 million tons. It will build a huge, ore-concentrating plant four miles from its present Aurora plant, a 60-mile railroad down to two islands near Schroeder (on Lake Superior's north shore), and its own harbor for loading the pellets into ore boats...
Although erotica burns brightest in the "Inferno," Robert H. Haynes, Assistant Librarian of the Colege Library, hastens to point out that the Cage was not solely created to harbor such literature...
...dazzling day last week, the 40-year-old gunboat Cuba steamed out of Havana harbor, coasting close under the grey, weathered walls of Morro Castle, and set course northeast through the blue Atlantic. At her foremast flew a pennant the Cuban breezes had not played with for seven years: the blue, white, red, yellow and green personal banner of General Fulgencio Batista. Aboard the Cuba was the general himself. He was headed for an Easter weekend holiday with his family on palm-lined Varadero Beach...