Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens are now too busy and too prosperous for suicide, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. reported. During 1943, U.S. suicides dropped from the average 19,000 of pre-Pearl Harbor years to a mere 13,000. Sharpest decline in the urge to self-destruction (a 35% drop) was among insured women in the 20-to-25 age group...
...Pearl Harbor, the first on board the cruiser was General Douglas MacArthur, in leather windbreaker and his jaunty marshal's cap. MacArthur had flown in that day from New Guinea...
...systematic, full-schedule inspection of Hawaii. In two days, touring about in an open Packard, his seersucker suit and Panama hat conspicuous among the gold braid of generals and admirals, he visited Marine and Naval air stations, Hickam Field, a jungle training center, ammunition dumps, supply bases, hospitals and Pearl Harbor itself...
...Hills. Radioman George Ray Tweed, 42, was one of 400 sailors and 155 marines stationed on Guam when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Tweed had just taken an examination for a rating as a chief radioman and was still waiting to hear the results when the Japs came...
This report was written for TIME by Captain Maurice S. Sheehy, District Chaplain, Pearl Harbor. Chaplain Sheehy is on wartime leave of absence from his teaching post at the Department of Religious Education of the Catholic University of America...