Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the answer, peace was not likely to descend suddenly on the troubled U.S. industrial front. Beyond wages, there were other reasons for striking. One of them had tied up 242 ships in New York's harbor, another had closed nearly half the nation's bituminous coal mines, and a third was still stirring up bitter battles in Hollywood...
...years of active duty in many countries was sometimes referred to as "the Army's ablest diplomat." McCoy was on the Lytton Commission which tried to do something about the Japs in Manchuria in 1932. He was on the Roberts Commission which made the first investigation of Pearl Harbor, is now president of the Foreign Policy Association...
Into New York harbor last week steamed two Norwegian whalers, the huge, 22,000-ton Sir James Clark Ross and the smaller Thorshammer. Two weeks out of Norway, they had hardly tied up in the shadow of the skyscrapers before their crews were busily dismantling their anti-aircraft guns, hauling aboard six months' supply of food...
Colonel Hubbard's plan calls for two main bases, one at Winter Harbor on Melville Island, the other at Thule in Greenland. Each would have a staff of about 50 men, with a powerful radio station and an airfield. Each main base would serve as headquarters for four satellite stations as much as 500 miles away, the maximum practical distance for supply planes. One station is planned for Peary Land, the farthest-north land on earth. Arctops may even put stations on the floating arctic ice, many miles from land...
...white-haired, pink-cheeked Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who had directed the Battle of the Pacific from a desk. He had never courted publicity. He had accumulated stiff titles like CINCPAC or CINCPOA instead of nicknames. And he had spent most of the war at Pearl Harbor and Guam...