Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Madding Bombs. In the feverish days after Pearl Harbor, when plane watchers on Manhattan's skyscrapers scanned the skies for the Luftwaffe (and sometimes thought they saw it), Metropolitan Museum officials feverishly sought some shelter where their millions of dollars' worth of art would be safe from Nazi bombs. Even earlier, various vacant buildings in Westchester and Putnam Counties had been inspected and found wanting. An abandoned shale mine near Kingston seemed safe but too damp. At last a Metropolitan trustee suggested Whitemarsh Hall...
...Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor was deliberately invited by the public officials...
...shot in the arm. He and his old friend & fellow Harvardman, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, initially arranged for the U.S. to buy $200 to $300 million-worth of war supplies in Canada. Prime purpose: to provide Canada with sorely needed U.S. dollars. It was a pre-Pearl Harbor device to help Britain and her Dominions "short...
...After Pearl Harbor, U.S. dollars flooded into Canada for the Alcan Highway, airports, the Canol pipeline, huge purchases of grain, aluminum, etc. By early this year, Canada actually had so big a surplus of U.S. dollars that it had become embarrassing to the U.S. Administration. Canada also had her pride. Said Mr. Ilsley in the House of Commons last week: "We always felt that, as a nation , . . free from the ravages of war we were in duty bound to stand on our own feet and indeed to share with the U.S. in assisting other less fortunate of our Allies...
Even before the Americans arrived, Curtin had looked to the U.S. Less than a month after Pearl Harbor, and three months after he became P.M., he made the first of a series of pronouncements which frightened Britons stiff: "Australia looks to America. . . . We shall exert our energies toward shaping a plan with the U.S. as its keystone...