Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Captain Walter Dean Short, 24, West Point-trained son of Major General Walter C. Short, Pearl Harbor's Army chief in 1941 (now working in a Dallas war plant, pending court-martial) ; and Emily Harrison Irby, 21 ; in Blackstone...
Killed in Action. Lieut. Commander Manning Marius Kimmel, 31, Annapolis-trained oldest son of Pearl Harbor's Rear Admiral Husband Kimmel (awaiting court-martial), winner of the Silver Star for "sinking of a significant amount of Japanese shipping"; aboard his command, the Robalo, 28th U.S. submarine lost during...
...Jessie Pearl Rice, 42, Georgia schoolteacher, wanted to be a sergeant, instead serves as executive assistant to Colonel Hobby. To solid, jolly but no-nonsense Colonel Rice come male majors, colonels, generals with gripes about the WACs. Her own gripe is that she is stuck in Washington, seldom gets a chance to travel...
Hellcat Birth. Shortly after World War II began, Grumman heard that the Wildcats, which were in production, were having trouble with Jap Zeros. So Swirbul hopped to Pearl Harbor, buttonholed Navy flyers ("just calling on the trade," says Grumman), listed their complaints. Back at Bethpage, he cocked his feet on the desk, read them to Grumman...
...Committee cheerfully reported last week: in the first two years of war, only 17% more firms shut their doors than in the last two years of peace-despite rationing, shortages of men and goods, etc. The net shrinkage was from 3,340,000 U.S. firms at the time of Pearl Harbor to 2,840,000 at the end of last year. But an analysis of the casualties was brighter than the bare figures...