Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only, beloved son, Edsel. But he was still the real boss, striding along the great assembly lines, sitting, birdlike and domineering, among the empire's reverent executives. Once again he cried out against the stupidity of war. He was an America Firster. But when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, he turned his Rouge plant into an arsenal. He put his company on a seven-day week...
...most front-line troops agreed with Willie. They had their own jeering nicknames for the even cheaper noncombat awards. The Asiatic-Pacific Theater ribbon was the "malaria bar with atabrine clusters"; the pre-Pearl Harbor service medal was the "Lend-Lease cross...
American Outlook's editor is Graham Hutton, who headed Britain's wartime Midwest Information Office in Chicago, and wrote a book called Midwest at Noon. Just before Pearl Harbor, he outshouted a hostile meeting of 300 Bundists in Chicago to get Britain's case heard. He is a zealot for both his country and the U.S.-but doesn't want his paper to be shrill. The idea for Editor Hutton's magazine had come from an American, George Oakes, 37, Oxford-educated nephew of the late New York Times Publisher Adolph S. Ochs.* Oakes...
...Pearl Harbor's best defense is distance-it lies 3,000 miles from Kamchatka...
...became a highly respected journal of news and opinion. Long before it became the fashion, the militant little paper took sides against the invading Japanese. When they tried to silence him with bribes and threats, Powell sneered at them and lined his pressroom doors with steel. The day after Pearl Harbor, the Japs shut up his shop, and later clapped Editor Powell into filthy, ice-cold Bridgehouse Prison. Before he got out, starvation had cut his weight in half, and gangrene had turned his feet into shapeless lumps...