Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having gone to the Law School for a year and a half after his graduation, "Torbie joined up when Pearl Harbor was struck. Assigned to a PT squadron, he first got into action at the beginning of the New Guinea campaign, after preliminary training at Melville, Rhode Island, and in the Atlantic...
Governor Dewey has launched a campaign of propaganda which may turn out to be very harmful to the fighting spirit of the American people and discouraging to our Allies. He speaks through the Congress man who implies that President Roosevelt was the Judas of Pearl Harbor, and through Governor Bricker who implies that the war was devised to provide jobs for the jobless. These are poisonous ideas that catch on easily and break down people's determination to see this war through to the bitter...
...floor of the Senate in May 1943, these words were uttered: 'After Pearl Harbor we found ourselves woefully unprepared for war.' Was that Dr. Goebbels? That Statement was made by Harry S. Truman...
...Illinois' Ralph Church: "I don't like this proposition of dangling new ranks around. We ought to get the truth of Pearl Harbor first...
...every branch of the industry heard the news with incredulity. Phil Johnson was only 49. He had called the bets for the company since its ramshackle beginnings; he had shouldered the vast problem of expanding Flying Fortress production after Pearl Harbor; he was counted on to steer Boeing's postwar course...