Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazilian Embassy at Ottawa sharply corrected him: "Mr. Gordon has been misinformed. Brazil is now the third largest producer of silk in the world, and, as is the case of Canada, Brazil has had no commercial relations with Japan since Pearl Harbor...
Lieut. General Millard F. Harmon, commander of the new Air Force (of Army and Navy bombers), passed up the temptation to make a Pearl Harbor anniversary attack on Tokyo with his B-29s.* But the heart of the enemy's homeland was devastated that day far more effectively than the available Superforts could have done it. An earthquake shook Japan at 1149 and 1153 p.m., Tokyo time...
Battle Report, Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea (Farrar & Rinehart for the Council on Books in Wartime; $3.50) is the result of Karig & Kelley's labors. Published this week on the anniversary of the "day of infamy," Battle Report adds hundreds of details to the public record of the first desperate stage of the Pacific war. At Pearl Harbor...
Emily's international incident (a girl) was born just before Pearl Harbor. When the Japs marched into Hong Kong a few weeks later they clapped Major Boxer into jail, questioned Emily. "Why?" screamed the Jap Chief of Gendarmes. "Why you marry . . . Chinese, then . . . have baby with Major Boxer?" "Because I'm a bad girl," said Emily...
...urbanity, never loses his temper or tells people stories they have heard before. He lives with his pretty wife Charlotte (who writes children's books) and his daughter Marion, 17, in a modern redwood-paneled house. With some neighbors, he organized an armchair strategists' society after Pearl Harbor. Jackson also belongs to a club of mystery-story writers (Erie Stanley Gardner was an editorial colleague on the Sunset). For one club dinner, which 13 members were scheduled to attend, it was decided that a body should be found at the table. The club invited Cinemactress Jane Russell-"probably...