Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down South there was Winston Churchill, burrowing his toes in Florida's sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...
...four years and a month Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel had waited to tell his story of the Pearl Harbor disaster. Now he had his chance...
...TIME [Dec. 17] under Miscellany you stated that a tug "chuffed" down the harbor. Please tell me what a tug does when it chuffs...
...beat of native drums, and shouted "Down with Lescot-le tyran!" After four days of paralyzing strikes, and fighting in which at least 14 had been killed, the Army had gone over to the revolution and Haiti had a new Government. On the hill overlooking the sail-flecked harbor, the handsome residence of President Elie Lescot lay empty. The President had fled the country. (Early this week he deplaned in Miami...
Perelle went to work enthusiastically. He speeded up work on the flying boat, got it so nearly finished that the only big job left was to get it from Culver City, Calif, to Los Angeles' harbor, 28 miles away, for final assembly and testing. But the $18,000,000 granted by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to build the plane had been spent. Although Hughes had agreed to meet any costs over this amount, Perelle went to Washington and saw RFC. Having already sunk so much in the plane, RFC agreed to put up another $1,500,000 to move...