Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since Pearl Harbor Japan has lost more than 21,170 planes...
...March 24, the proud and shattered ship steamed into a fleet base in the Western Pacific, rested briefly in that haven and headed for Pearl Harbor and the long voyage home...
...still manned her. Gehres would allow no one else aboard. He issued beer. An octette of Negro mess-men and other talent, with a band of pots & pans, an accordion and a cornet, put on a pathetic and courageous show-"The Franklin Frolics." For four days they rested in Pearl Harbor, then sailed on for Panama. On April 26-after 38 days and 13,400 miles-they dropped anchor at last in New York's Gravesend...
Immediately after Pearl Harbor, the Reconstruction Finance Corp. set up War Insurance Corp., which insured, free of charge, all property in the U.S. and its possessions from war damage. So far it has paid out $327,000 (for losses in Hawaii, the Aleutians, etc.) but it has still to pay losses on Guam (perhaps four or five million) and in the Philippines. Since liberation the Philippines have filed claims for $115,000,000, probably less than half of the final amount...
About six months after Pearl Harbor, RFC replaced WIC with the War Damage Corp., which took over the same type of insurance but charged premiums of $1 a $1,000. WDC has had to pay out only trifling amounts, has $220,000,000 of untouched profits to balance in part the huge losses...