Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radioman at Pearl Harbor adjusted his earphones, tapped out "Go ahead." The first message came in: "This news is from Radio Guam. Nothing heard from you since 1941. Greetings...
Thus last week the liberated area of Guam signalized its return to U.S. possession. Two days later. Major General Roy S. Geiger, commanding the Amphibious III Corps, added formality to fact by running up the Stars & Stripes at his headquarters on the island 3,800 miles west of Pearl Harbor, proclaiming U.S. military government in effect...
Marines' Homecoming. By week's end the peninsula battle was finished. Orote airfield, the Sumay base of Pan American Airways and pre-Pearl Harbor Marine Barracks were in U.S. hands. Crack fighters of the ist Marine Provisional Brigade (veterans of Edson's ist Raider Battalion, Carlson's 2nd and Liversedge's 3rd) had still to clean out snipers in the jungle around the airfield...
...always been and is now the case that headquarters correspondents in Pearl Harbor scoop reporters on the scene of action by periods ranging from hours to days. In the beginning of the battle of Saipan it was days, because those at headquarters had means to move any copy they chose to write while we at the scene had none...
...when Frank went to Atlanta for his Army physical test. But if Frank goes for good, she warns Quitman that the Free Press may go the way of the 1,000-odd U.S. rural weeklies that have folded up, for lack of manpower and other reasons, since Pearl Harbor...