Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Langer's choice to beat Nye is Usher Lloyd Burdick, 65, for the last ten years a plodding, mild-mannered U.S. Representative whose hobby is collecting and rebinding old volumes of Wild West Americana. Usher Burdick is a pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist who changed his mind. A colorless radio speaker, lacking the verve and rabble-rousing fire of either Opponent Nye or Boss Langer, Candidate Burdick goes poorly in the cities. He is a great success with small groups of farmers when he rips off his coat and speaks in unvarnished and unrehearsed language. But some of Burdick...
Work among prisoners in the Far East is not so thorough. But since Pearl Harbor the Y has given limited relief to Americans in 70 camps or sub-camps in Japan. And recently it won Jap consent to purchase in the Philippines $25,000 worth of supplies monthly for American prisoners there...
...minuscule Marine air arm fought lustily, grew, kept at it after the war ended. Marine flyers developed dive bombing, in Haiti. They improved the technique against the Nicaraguan "bandits." They operated in China during the 1927 civil war. On Dec. 11, 1941, four days after Pearl Harbor, they made their bloody entrance into World...
...Since Pearl Harbor the U.S. has produced 171,257 planes. War Secretary Stimson revealed that the Army now has 75,000 planes, of which 34,000 are combat craft. The Navy recently announced that it has 37,700 aircraft of all kinds, giving the armed services a total strength of 112,700 planes. Franklin Roosevelt added some figures of his own: since the beginning of Lend-Lease (March 11, 1941) the U.S. has built 175,000 planes, shipped 33,000 to its allies...
...Winston-Salem Junior Leaguers discussed closing their Thrift Shop after Pearl Harbor. Last month was their biggest May in twelve years; a clientele which was originally almost 99% Negro now includes many middle-class white families. And Salvation Army thrift shops scattered through the South had upped their sales from...