Word: harbor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before the war, when Ben Kuroki helped his father raise sugar beets and seed potatoes on a farm in Hershey, Neb. (pop. 487), nobody paid much attention to the color of Ben's skin. The day after Pearl Harbor, Kuroki enlisted. On the train to camp, he heard for the first time what became an agonizingly familiar question: "What's that Jap doing in the Army?" To answer it, Japanese-American Ben Kuroki volunteered as an Air Force gunner...
South Amboy, N.J. (pop. 9,500), a minor port on the southern arm of vast New York Harbor, is the kind of nondescript town through which most travelers pass on the way to somewhere else. Manhattan vacationists zip past on the way to seaside villages and resorts. Commuters on the Pennsylvania's gritty Jersey Shore line spend five minutes there every trip, buried in their newspapers or staring glumly at a shabby luncheonette across from a tavern while the electric engine is changed for a steam locomotive. Sprawled along the estuary of the Raritan River, just across...
Steaks & Jabs. After that all sorts of improbable things began to happen to them. A U.S. destroyer boiled up alongside the steamship and took them off. A Navy plane flew them from Hong Kong to Pearl Harbor. On arrival they were hustled away to a hospital and supplied with steaks, ice cream, vitamin pills and new uniforms. Doctors tapped and jabbed them; intelligence officers quizzed them about the world revolution...
...wealth, both real and potential. Smith drew $1,367 in back pay; Bender more than $3,000. They began getting dizzying offers (the Navy estimated that they might split $100,000) from publishers, magazines, radio and television companies. When they walked into a glare of newsreel lights at Pearl Harbor for a press conference, they acted as if they had gone through some 20th Century looking glass and into a world where everybody had gone completely, if delightfully, nuts...
Later that same day, McConaughy and his staff boarded a train for Tientsin and the U.S. liner General W. H. Gordon. Last week, the General Gordon nosed into Hong Kong Harbor bearing U.S. diplomatic personnel, and 660 other refugees from 26 nations...