Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo this week, U.S. Congressman Dewey Short, member of a six-man House Military Committee touring Pacific occupation zones, declared there was "imminent danger of another Pearl Harbor in Korea . . . or Alaska. . . . We cannot risk being caught unprepared again...
...wizened little man in a brown kimono and a black derby hat shuffled about in a pearly haze. He was Kokichi Mikimoto, who has annoyed more oysters for more profit than any other man. Last week the longtime king of Japan's culture-pearl industry declared the largest personal income in Japan in the first year of American occupation. He had netted three million yen ($200,000) selling pearls to the conquerors...
Annoy an Oyster. Back in 1890 Mikimoto heard a Japanese zoologist lecture on the possibility of cultivating pearls. Why not implant an irritant like a grain of sand in a baby oyster, see if the oyster would coat it with layers of nacre, and thus form a pearl? Mikimoto decided...
...sold out his Tokyo mother-of-pearl business, moved to oyster-packed Ago Bay to experiment. In four years he had his first but imperfect pearl. In 19 years he had so perfected his process that few amateurs could distinguish cultured pearls from natural ones...
...long before Pearl Harbor, Adamic had had a special idea. It led, shortly after Pearl Harbor, to a special invitation. Adamic accepted eagerly. The confirmation came by wire: MRS. ROOSEVELT DELIGHTED YOU AND MRS. ADAMIC CAN COME TO DINNER ON TUESDAY, JANUARY THIRTEENTH. BLACK TIE. SEVEN-THIRTY...