Word: pearled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kearny, N.J. the Federal Shipbuilding yards laid off 800 workers, planned to lay off another 700. These were Federal's first layoffs since Pearl Harbor...
Less than a year ago the Navy's utmost effort was an island hop onto New Georgia. In beginning the Marianas campaign the Navy had completed a gargantuan, leap 3,750 miles from its main base at Pearl Harbor to within 1,500 miles of Japan's homeland...
...critical point in the battle when the Japs hoped to drive through to Pearl Harbor and a decisive victory, U.S. task forces lost contact with the enemy. Then 15 planes of Torpedo Squadron Eight suddenly came out of the overcast and saw spread out below them three Jap carriers and their escorts...
...Leadership, fighting spirit, reliability and administrative talent may help to promote a young officer in the Air Forces-as elsewhere in the Army- but in the A.A.F. there is still another factor. In the rapid Air Forces expansion following Pearl Harbor, young men were pushed into important jobs because they could do them. The policy of "Hap" Arnold (57), who respects youth more than most oldsters, was to bestow rank commensurate with the job, and to hell with seniority...
...Brave, the Best. Between Pearl Harbor and D-day Major General Hawley had integrated into one tremendous organization the best the U.S. had to send of surgical and medical genius, technique, supplies. He had also supervised the building of huge hospitals which, some Army doctors say, are better than those at home...