Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days after Pearl Harbor, when the bill authorizing the President to send troops overseas was up for debate, he pushed himself feebly to his feet on the Senate floor to croak: "I object." Since that day, Hi Johnson, tired, sick and sore, had spent more of his time in his office or in hospitals, dreaming of the Presidency he never won. This week, as it must to all men, Death came in the 79th year to the California dissenter, one of the great independents of U.S. politics...
Gone was the battle line which had dominated the Pacific in the first months after Pearl Harbor. The manner of its passing revealed the inherent weakness of Japan's imperial aspirations; Japan's sea lords, with all their bombast, had never dared commit the battle fleet as a unit in a bold strike for strategic mastery...
Behind their braggadocio there had always been the grudging realization that their country could not afford true sea power; its industrial potential was so low that they could not, in emergency, build a new fleet almost overnight, as the U.S. had after Pearl Harbor. Theirs had been a strategy of poverty and picayune improvisation...
...Director of the News Office will not be a new one to Dame, for he held the job for six months after Pearl Harbor while Wild was touring the United States with Latin American newspapermen. In May of this year, working with the News Office, Dame was the first to secure clearance for a story on the Civil Affairs Training School...
...people on Fassarai, the Navy put the Seabees to work. The result was something new in naval history: a vast service station enabling entire fleets to operate indefinitely at unprecedented distances from their main, landmass bases. Many a ship stayed out a year or more without returning to Pearl Harbor...