Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late President Leon Cortes Castro, still believes it fair to call him fascist-minded: 1) he accepted political support from a large group who adopted fascist trappings; 2) one of his chief advisers was the German Nazi Max Effinger, who was shipped to the U.S. for internment after Pearl Harbor; 3) he sent his son and political lieutenant to school in Germany and never repudiated the son's enthusiastic reports on Hitler...
...While the demand for housing has been piling up, the additions to the supply have been meager. During the war, residential building was limited to the needs of war workers. Even before Pearl Harbor the cities of the U.S. were underbuilt. In the last 15 years, as a result of depression and war, the building industry has turned out an annual average of only 330,000 housing units...
Last week a drab and depressed Uraga had a harbor reception of a different kind. The arriving travelers were 336 Japanese men, women & children-diplomats, businessmen and newspapermen returning home with their families from foreign posts. From the decks of the rusty old Tsukushi Mam, they gazed glumly at the panorama of defeat. On the pier was a delegation of U.S. Eighth Army personnel. As the sullen repatriates debarked, they were hustled to the customs shed. There, teams of doctors, officers and G.I.s (for the men) and nurses, WACs and female Nisei (for the women) stripped them, ripped their clothing...
...lesson was over the ex-Premier knew just about as much as anybody else. Just what did "Hubba, hubba" mean, he asked a visitor from the American prosecution staff. " 'Hurry up,' " obliged the visitor. "Ah, so," murmured Tojo, "... I always thought it meant 'Remember Pearl Harbor...
...longitude around the earth. Thus when the sun is directly overhead at Greenwich, G.C.T. and local time are both 12 o'clock noon. At the same instant it is 7 a.m. local time-Eastern Standard-in New York, but the chronometer of a ship in the harbor will read - with corrections - 12h oom oos G.C.T., though the sun may be only just rising. The Court's suggestion: substitute the 24 letters of the Latin Alphabet for the 24 G.C.T. hours. Then at a quarter past R in San Francisco, it would also be a quarter past...