Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will it take another Pacific catastrophe like Pearl Harbor to send celebrating Joe Blow Civilian back to war work and keep him there? We're not killjoys. We just don't like it out here...
...often been spectacularly wrong. In the early days of the war he had persuaded his Legislature to condemn Mr. King's war effort. The Prime Minister promptly called a national election, was returned with an increased majority. Hepburn gloomily predicted that Germany would beat Russia. Shortly after Pearl Harbor he gravely embarrassed Ottawa by sneering that "the proud U.S. Fleet has gone into hiding." But in earthy Ontario politics, earthy, colorful Mitch Hepburn* had more often guessed right than wrong...
Lieut. Commander James Edward Van Zandt, 45, onetime commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, onetime isolationist and anglophobic U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, who volunteered for Navy action when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, got a Legion of Merit from General MacArthur for "splendid performance of duty" as commander of assault waves in "sustained operations against the enemy...
...Almost half of the nation's 842,000 teachers are new at the job since Pearl Harbor; fewer & fewer teachers can see any sense in working for less than a living wage...
Ships of the Line. The Jap Navy is stronger in battleships but weaker in other categories than at the time of Pearl Harbor. Some authorities credit it with three new battleships mounting nine 16-inch guns; Jane's Fighting Ships (new edition) credits it with six. That means a Jap battle line of eleven to 14 units. (The OWI struck a compromise, listing ten to 13.) The U.S. has 23 battleships in commission; Britain has at least 15 ; France has one modern ship of the line, the Richelieu, and one veteran; cobelligerent Italy (see FOREIGN NEWS...