Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years and 150 days after Pearl Harbor, the Methodist Church endorsed the war. The Church told its 8,000,000 members that their prayers for the 1,000,000 Methodist servicemen and women, the 1,300 Methodist chaplains, were now authorized. Methodists may now also pray for victory. But it took a whole day's tense debate on the floor of the Church's quadrennial General Conference,* which met (for ten days) in Kansas City's municipal auditorium, to make Methodism reverse its antiwar stand...
...that of a civilian link between the Navy and the nation, not a teacher of admirals. Mostly he bustled about, trying to instill his own brand of peppy patriotism into war workers and servicemen alike. As the Navy's most-traveled Secretary, he visited Pearl Harbor a few days after December 7, and saw Guadalcanal, England and the Mediterranean...
...After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army had to find fuel to power the big bombers winging north in defense of Alaska and the Lend-Lease planes streaking towards the Soviet Union. Officially the manifold project dubbed Canol was proposed to Canada June 27, 1942, started two days later. First step was to expand Norman Wells, an oil field 100 miles south of the Arctic in the great Canadian Northwest. To get Norman crude to a new refinery at Whitehorse, the Army stretched a four-inch surface pipeline 585 miles across the uncharted, dangerous Mackenzie mountain range. The final link...
...scuttlebutt had been wrong. The commands got closely together on plans last February when MacArthur's top staffers, headed by his Chief, self-effacing Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland, went north to Pearl Harbor to meet with the Navy people. Late in March, frosty-haired Chester Nimitz went down to New Guinea for a huddle with MacArthur...
...also the first big-scale merging of MacArthur's forces with those of Admiral Chester Nimitz. Admiral Nimitz issued a separate communiqué from Pearl Harbor saying that his cruisers, aircraft carriers and destroyers shelled and bombed the three bases before MacArthur's troops waded ashore...