Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation received the fearful news from Korea with a strange-seeming calmness-the kind of confused, fearful, half-disbelieving matter-of-factness with which many a man has reacted on learning that he has cancer or tuberculosis. The news of Pearl Harbor, nine years ago to the month, had pealed out like a fire bell. But the numbing facts of the defeat in Korea seeped into the national consciousness slowly out of a jumble of headlines, bulletins and communiqués; days passed before its enormity finally became plain...
George Petemezas seemed to be a young man with promise. Born in Pittsburgh of Greek parents, dark-eyed, natty George joined the Army before Pearl Harbor, served honorably as an OSS agent in Yugoslavia...
...well. In fact, big-scale arms production has not even started. With the threat of global war deepening by the hour, the bitter truth is that the U.S. right now-after five months of a shooting war-is producing fewer weapons than it was when the Japs struck Pearl Harbor...
...World War II production, so far has about $1 billion in war contracts-only 3% of the money Congress voted. General Motors, which turned out one-tenth of all U.S. war goods last time and was working on $1.2 billion of orders at the time of Pearl Harbor, had less than $750 million worth last week...
...Pearl Harbor, Secretary of the Navy Francis P. ("Rowboat") Matthews said he was off on a tour of the Pacific "in order to better equip myself for performance of my duties...