Word: harbor
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Frontier Question. In Radford's command is the Navy's far-flung string of Pacific bases, from Pearl Harbor to the projected new base at Camranh Bay in Indo-China. Pearl and Guam are the main bases for repair and service of warships, as well as for staging land-based air. Okinawa, a major base for the Air Force's B-29s, is not now being used by the Navy but is on standby status. So is Kwajalein. Two bases in Japan (Yokosuka and Sasebo) are capable of handling large naval forces, and a twin base...
...oils of his new surroundings. Dufy's New England looked rosy as his view of U.S. art was dim. He had filled the Charles River with a champagne-fizz of sailboats and bright ripples, turned the boxy Suffolk County courthouse into a castle of air, given Boston Harbor's fishing fleet a carnival atmosphere, set Beacon Hill on its ear and made the Georgian brick halls of Harvard dance (see cut). All in all, his Boston pictures were Parisian as ever...
...Harbor, Me., geneticists at the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory finally succeeded in raising a pair of Siamese cats with orange "points" (i.e., ears feet and tails), straw-colored bodies and clear blue eyes. The name of the new Siamese, related closely to the usual blue point and seal point Siamese: red points...
...history have we been so nearly prepared at the start of any war as we were at the start of this one. Today we have in Korea more men and more arms than we sent to the invasion of North Africa in November of 1942, eleven months after Pearl Harbor...
...supply of freight cars has not kept pace with the nation's growth. Though the gross national product has more than doubled in ten years, the number of freight cars in service has actually dwindled to 1,605,609 from 1,620,655 at the time of Pearl Harbor...