Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stooped, fierce-eyed old Cordell Hull said that he felt exactly the same about the "situation today" as he did when he dressed down Japanese peace emissaries after the attack at Pearl Harbor...
Divorced. Robert Montgomery, 46, cinemactor (Night Must Fall), radio commentator, TV director (Robert Montgomery Presents); by Elizabeth Allen Montgomery, 43, onetime actress; after 22 years of marriage; two children; in Las Vegas, Nev. Six days later, Montgomery married Mrs. Elisabeth Grant Harkness, 41, Manhattan socialite, in Sag Harbor...
After Pearl Harbor, faced with a drastic cut in radio production, Swanson and his partners scraped up enough cash to start another entirely separate company at Bangor, Mich. ("out of the high tax and labor shortage area"). There they started to produce for war. They manufactured such war goods as radio crystals and control units for target planes and eventually became one of the Signal Corps' biggest suppliers. At war's end, Swanson hopped into the rapidly expanding television industry, and opened a Los Angeles plant to produce tuners...
...operation before Korea-and they are not moving much faster. Even if the industry meets the Defense Department's goal of a rate of 6,000 planes a year by the end of 1951, it will still only match the production rate of 1940, a year before Pearl Harbor. The big hitch: a constant change in specifications...
...world wars, the U.S. bears a measure of guilt in not making this concern clear to those who were to become her enemies. One of the friends of the U.S. understood without being told. Commager, in his introduction, repeats a Winston Churchill story: the day of Pearl Harbor, some Britons doubted that the easygoing U.S. had the will and stamina to fight as it would have to fight. Says Churchill: "But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch ... I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful...