Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cruft Laboratory added emergency instructors and intensive courses in Russian and Japanese were announced, setting the scene for the invasion of servicemen that was due soon. The Navy Supply Corps School had been at the Business School since before Pearl Harbor, and Signal Corps officers were already studying at the laboratories...
...also been impressive. In success or failure, Mr. Hull usually preserved his native dignity. That dignity was sore beset when Franklin Roosevelt torpedoed the 1933 London Economic Conference from under him. It did not desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning Japanese diplomats. It kept him at least outwardly calm when New Deal left-wingers shrilly accused him of appeasing Petain, Darlan, Franco and Badoglio...
...BATTLEFRONTS). From Guam, 128 miles south, New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Bert Andrews cabled: "It would be helpful if the home-held picture of Guam as a tiny Pacific 'pin point' were dispelled." Through heaviest censorship he slipped a general's quote: "This will be another Pearl Harbor...
...forester by training (on his father's ranch and at Montana State University), Zemke turned to the Army Air Corps soon after graduation in 1936 and became a Regular Army officer. After his marriage (he now has a two-and-a-half-year-old son) and before Pearl Harbor, he went to England to demonstrate Lend-Lease Tomahawks, did the same in "Russia before being put in command of one of the first U.S. fighter groups to go to England...
...from the French the nickname, "Les Terribles." It was made up of National Guard units from Michigan and Wisconsin, draftees, regular officers. It had had some field training, a little tutoring in jungle fighting under simulated conditions in Louisiana. But training in those days was not up to post-Pearl Harbor standards, and the 32nd-though it did not know it then-was headed for the toughest battlefront in the world. Major General Edwin Forrest Harding, a regular, was in command...