Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glowering over his spectacles, Baruch arrived on Capitol Hill to give the Senate his recommendations for meeting the direst military crisis since Pearl Harbor. Adviser to Presidents and Congresses for more than a quarter of a century, he carried the outraged recollection that his counsel had too often been disregarded. In the past two years, Washington had brushed off his repeated advice that the U.S. get up off its hunkers and rearm itself. Many observers figured that Washington would go on brushing him off. Baruch, the ancient prophet, was out of date...
...Halifax Harbor, George Chaisson reeled in after two hours without a bite. On his hook was a soggy $5 bill...
...months before Pearl Harbor, U.S. Army engineers asked Sverdrup to chart a string of air bases for a plane-ferrying route to the Philippines and Australia; he was in the Fiji Islands when war came...
...clear summer afternoon of June 27, the American Export passenger-cargo liner S.S. Excalibur nosed out of New York harbor into a collision with the inbound Danish freighter Colombia (TIME, July 10). As water poured through a 38-foot hole between the Excalibur's No. 2 and No. 3 holds, Captain Samuel Groves rang up full speed, beached her on the mud bottom off Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Within an hour all 114 passengers had been taken off and American Export Lines began a furious race to get the Excalibur ready for sea again. In 39 days of continuous work...
Died. Shigenori Togo, 67, Japanese career diplomat who became Foreign Minister seven weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack and internal ailments; in Tokyo. Tried as a war criminal in 1948, he insisted that he had opposed Premier Hideki Tojo's expansionist policies, but was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment...