Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year before Pearl Harbor, for example, nine out of ten of you went off on trips averaging 19.7 days, traveled an average of 2,156 miles. So many of you went by plane that a poll of airline travel card holders shows TIME far and away their first choice magazine, and so many of you also traveled by ship that similar polls show TIME way out in front as the favorite magazine of cruise passengers. (Another 142,800 of you traveled by Pullman-and the next Thursday you happen to be on a Pullman yourself you might look around...
...Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, a naval aviator since 1915, pilot of the NC1 on the first Navy transatlantic flight in 1919, commander of the carrier Hornet, which launched the Doolittle raiders against Tokyo, best known as the boss of famed Task Force 58 which has swept the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo...
...Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt made the basic decision, right after Pearl Harbor, to hold defensively in the Pacific while disposing of Germany and Italy in Europe. The fundamental strategy was to concentrate on beating Hitler first. So we poured over 98% of our supplies into Europe, and sent less than 2% to east Asia and less than 10% of that went to the Chinese. Up until a few months ago when we finally began to consider the Chinese armies of sufficient importance to make an all-out effort to get more assistance to them, they had had only two-tenths...
...landing in the south, behind the Jap lines, instead of being thrown into a power drive at the Shuri line alongside the Army's XXIV Corps. Columnist David Lawrence picked up the cry and shrilled about the "military fiasco at Okinawa ... a worse example of military incompetence than Pearl Harbor." He blamed the Navy's heavy losses, in ships and men, on the "bungling" which had prolonged the conquest...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor dropped in on the Salvation Army in Manhattan-he in a brown and tan get-up with a black derby, she in a grey suit, matching beanie, sable scarf, pearl necklace, diamond clip, aquamarine-&-sapphire earrings. When the Duke shed his topcoat, a nosey bystander noted that it was a hand-me-down from the '30s, with a label inside the collar which read: "Prince of Wales...