Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many years, both as a newspaper editor and as an individual citizen, I have been fighting the Jap menace in America. A year before Pearl Harbor, I saw what was coming and tried to get into the armed forces. I was turned down because of age. Three months ago my only son gave his life for his country...
Shut up in an Idaho relocation camp for three years, Shigeo Nagaishi, a Nisei, heard many a story of rising anti-Japanese sentiment on the Pacific Coast. He was not frightened; after all, his roots were in Seattle. Before Pearl Harbor, he had owned a house and run a grocery there. Last week, Shigeo Nagaishi, with his wife and three little girls, went back home...
...Arbiter. But his old friend Franklin Roosevelt reached out for him once more, made him his personal chief of staff eight months after Pearl Harbor...
During that time he has diverted more than 272,000 carloads of freight from one railroad to another, cleaned up the mess that Pearl Harbor made of West Coast ports, generally won the respect of railroadmen for his nimble thinking...
...first shipment of crude rubber from the Philippines since Pearl Harbor is presumably on the way to the U.S. this week. The amount is small-66,500 Ibs. But the story of how it was prepared, by Mateo Ruiz, 40-year-old chief clerk at Goodyear Rubber Plantations Co.'s 2,500-acre Pathfinder plantation at Kabasalan, on Zamboanga, was one to make businessmen beam...