Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hawaii of 1952 is a string of volcanic islands in mid-Pacific where half a million U.S. citizens are living the most spectacular story of all the incredible stories of Americanization. In the decade since the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaiians have faced a half-century's accumulated problems of transition: the breakdown of economic monopoly, the rise of aggressive labor unionism, the threat of Communist control, the restlessness of homecoming veterans, and the rights, problems and adjustments of linguistic and racial minorities. For each problem they have found, if not the answer, at least a piece...
...week's end, a pleasant draught was poured into the McCarthy cup by Republican National Chairman Guy George Gabrielson. There was a time when Republican leaders seemed to have some doubts about McCarthy, but Gabrielson now seemed to harbor none. On a television program called "Youth Wants to Know," a teen-ager asked the Republican chairman about "Jumping Joe McCarthy." Gabrielson chided the boy, said he didn't "like that way of speaking." The American people, he went on, "should be proud of what the Senator has done." When the youth asked about McCarthy's "methods," Gabrielson...
Higbee's soundman lost the torpedo whine, but his probing sonar picked up a new contact: the metallic hull of a submerged vessel. Depth charges at the ready, the destroyer bore down on the contact. The captain ordered an uncoded message sent to CINCPAC at Pearl Harbor: "Attacked by submarine. Position: latitude 24° 36 min. north, longitude 121° 25 min. east. Am attacking submarine...
Author of more than a dozen volumes, his latest, "The Challenge to Imperialism," was published by Harper Brothers about two weeks ago. It is the first volume of his history of American foreign policy from 1937 to Pearl Harbor...
...whistles of 300 ships tooted a greeting when he sailed up the harbor on the Coast Guard cutter Sank. Half a million people cheered the skipper as he paraded up Broadway. "I just wanted to kiss him," a young girl hollered indignantly after chasing the skipper's car for eight blocks. From every window, ticker tape and confetti poured down, 75 tons of it. At a luncheon in his honor, Carlsen turned down a gold watch sent him by a wellwisher. Said he: "Please accept a simple seaman's simple thanks...