Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stockpile all at once, gave speculators their big chance. Stormed Johnson: "The tin price gouging by some of our oldest international friends is entirely devoid of morality." He urged the Government to get out of the market, especially since it has more tin on hand than before Pearl Harbor (151,941 tons...
There has not been a better book written about soldiers. In recent years, I believe, there have been few better books written. Jones' saga of a Regular Army unit stationed in Hawaii in the months before Pearl Harbor is narrated with great humor and understandind, and with a degree of skill that is startling in a first novel...
...book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...
...tough Union de Obre-ros Estivadores de Filipinas (U.O.E.F.) and certain employers and politicians who played ball with U.O.E.F. The union capataces (work-gang leaders) collected money from the shippers, paid off the workers themselves. In the days when there were as many as 25 ships in the harbor, the capataces' rake-off amounted to $25,000 a week...
...shape because of overexpansion, but by cutting down and changing the management, the new owner soon had it on its feet. From then on, Schott's investment company began picking up companies and real estate. In ten years he gathered up more than 18 new businesses, including Whale Harbor Spa (a Florida fishing resort), Columbia Axle Co., U.S. Air Compressor Co., Stratbury Manufacturing Co. (overcoats), Farm Tools...