Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down South there was Winston Churchill, burrowing his toes in Florida's sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...
...four years and a month Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel had waited to tell his story of the Pearl Harbor disaster. Now he had his chance...
Then came the crossexamination. The Navy's famed Nov. 27 message to Pearl Harbor had begun with the words: "This is ... a war warning." Hadn't the Admiral considered this highly significant? His answer boomed: "I did not consider it an extraordinary message...
This eerily accurate prediction was one of the few nuggets of new information produced by the investigation in a week of prospecting old diggings: ¶ Admiral Harold R. Stark, 1941 Chief of Naval Operations, admitted that he did not believe Pearl Harbor would be attacked-but insisted in his testimony that Kimmel had received ample warning. But "Betty" Stark refused to criticize "Mustapha" Kimmel, one of his "closest and finest friends." ¶ In a statement to the Roberts Commission, made public for the first time, Major General Walter C. Short blamed his command's failures on the War Department...
Safety in Smoke. Other CWS researchers made fire into a weapon to sweep whole cities. When Japanese planes swarmed over Pearl Harbor the U.S. had not a single incendiary shell or bomb in stock. Military bigwigs were not even interested. But CWS went to work and turned out 260,000,000 of them...