Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Great Hopes. From West Coast ports sailed two carriers laden with planes. Farther westward, occasional warships crept into Pearl Harbor, vanished into the reaches of the Pacific. Through Hawaii flowed the other, inevitable, steady stream of war-commercial airliners out of the Far East carrying hundreds of civilian evacuees. Two airborne arrivals flew directly on to Washington. They were Generals J. Lawton Collins and Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chiefs of the nation's ground and air forces, fresh from consultation with Douglas MacArthur. Their colleague, Admiral Forrest Sherman, was in Washington consulting with Congressmen. The day after the Korean Reds...
...hours last week, a tight feeling of crisis hung over Esquimalt naval base on Vancouver Island. Wives and sweethearts gathered for tearful farewells as the destroyers Cayuga, Athabaskan and Sioux slipped their moorings and headed into the straits bound for Pearl Harbor. The Canadian government had put them at the disposal of General Douglas MacArthur for use in the Korean...
From 1917 until the day after Pearl Harbor, John Benjamin Powell edited and published a courageous, respected Shanghai newsmagazine called the China Weekly Review. Clapped into prison by the Japanese, J.B. suffered starvation and gangrene that hastened his death (TIME, March 10, 1947). Behind him, Powell left a son to carry on. Last week, in a Communist Shanghai that was virtually deserted by Americans, 31-year-old John William Powell was still publishing the Review. Old J.B., who called no man master, would have been surprised and shocked at its subservient tone. Son Bill had become an outright apologist...
...worse off in military plane production than it had been at the time of Pearl Harbor, when it had had the benefit of two full years of preparation for war including French and British orders (see chart). By the end of 1941, the U.S. was turning out 19,290 military aircraft a year; in the last twelve months, only 2,713 military planes were delivered. And the scheduled production for the next twelve months is even smaller-a spindly 2,297 planes, in the face of current Soviet production believed to total 12,000 military planes a year...
...harbor any grudges then...