Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many years, both as a newspaper editor and as an individual citizen, I have been fighting the Jap menace in America. A year before Pearl Harbor, I saw what was coming and tried to get into the armed forces. I was turned down because of age. Three months ago my only son gave his life for his country...
After five years in the German Reich, Winston Churchill's "dear Channel Islands" were back in the British Empire last week. The Germans had surrendered. Cheering crowds lined the harbor of St. Peter Port, the port of Guernsey, to greet the British battalions. Then, out of an assault craft stepped an austere, black-clad man. On his head was a black bowler. In one hand he held a tightly rolled umbrella. Under one arm he hugged a black G.R. (a dispatch case with a George Rex imprint). At the first sight since 1940 of a typical London civil servant...
After Pearl Harbor, radio moaned quietly over its censorship clamps. Last week, after V-E day, there were no particular shouts of. joy when some of the clamps were relaxed. Radio had patriotically toed the line and found, to its surprise, that listeners were not missing much. Now, for better or worse, the customers could again tune in: 1) full weather forecasts; 2) man-in-the-street interviews; 3) record request programs...
During that time he has diverted more than 272,000 carloads of freight from one railroad to another, cleaned up the mess that Pearl Harbor made of West Coast ports, generally won the respect of railroadmen for his nimble thinking...
...first shipment of crude rubber from the Philippines since Pearl Harbor is presumably on the way to the U.S. this week. The amount is small-66,500 Ibs. But the story of how it was prepared, by Mateo Ruiz, 40-year-old chief clerk at Goodyear Rubber Plantations Co.'s 2,500-acre Pathfinder plantation at Kabasalan, on Zamboanga, was one to make businessmen beam...