Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic Isolationist Guy M. Gillette was trounced by Iowa's short, balding Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, an able, popular Governor with internationalist leanings. South Dakota's Chan Gurney, a Republican who has supported the Roosevelt foreign policy 100%, won easy reelection. In Washington, the seat vacated by pre-Pearl Harbor Isolationist Homer Bone went to honey-haired Congressman Warren Magnuson, a 1,000% New Dealer...
...Soldier Dill, now armed with a Field Marshal's baton, was destined never to reach India. A topflight job developed for which he was Churchill's inevitable choice-head of the British Joint Staff Mission to Washington, set up immediately after Pearl Harbor...
...believed that the straw-sandaled, underfed Chinese soldier, properly equipped, trained and led, was the fighting equal of any other nation's soldier. He was sure that he could create a striking force with Chinese manpower and U.S. weapons that would drive the Japanese from China. After Pearl Harbor, he got the beginning of a slim chance to test this belief...
Those improvised island bases, planned by burly Rear Admiral Ben Moreell and his Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, and built by Seabees, were among the wonders of the war. Never-never towns like Pago Pago were transformed. Nouméa became a little Pearl Harbor, with shipping crowding its lovely harbor, sailors over running its narrow streets, installations mushrooming on its mountains...
Roll Call. In Philadelphia, James D. Six, one of the six Six boys in the armed forces, came home on furlough. In Dayton, newly recruited to the WACs, was Mrs. Pearl Harbour. In California, James Bottoms applied for transfer from the airborne Engineers to the Submarine Corps...