Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warships put to sea for a shakedown, as much as 87% of their crews have never been to sea before. Of the 2,981,365 persons in the Navy at the close of the 1944 fiscal year, 88% were schoolboys, farmers, or businessmen at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack...
Donald had bought a seagoing yacht in 1935, with the idea of retiring to write his memoirs. He planned to sail along the China coast to the Dutch East Indies, writing where and as he pleased. He left on his belated adventure just before Pearl Harbor. How the Japs caught him, how he managed to conceal his identity, is a story that closemouthed Donald has still to tell...
...BATTLE WITHIN-Philip Gibbs-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Moralist Gibbs slickly manipulates the fortunes of the Haddon family to show how Britain faces up to war. As Dr. Haddon goes on his troubled rounds, his lady frets over their son Peter, in love with a friend's wife. Daughter Pearl is forced to choose between a German flyer and a nice American sergeant. Author Gibbs deftly solves the problems, or sends insoluble characters off to heroic death...
Human Design. The U.S. pioneers in jet-plane research, which began before Pearl Harbor and has been based on the design by British Inventor Frank Whittle, have been General Electric (the motor) and Bell Aircraft (the frame). But today almost every major U.S. planemaker is up to his ears in jet plans...
Douglas MacArthur came back to Manila, Pearl of the Orient...