Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the overriding subject of U.S. interest was still, as at any given moment since Hiroshima, the atom bomb. Never before since the pollsters set up shop had one topic evoked such continuous, prolonged, intense public concern. Nothing-not the homecoming of the heroes, not strikes nor reconversion, the Pearl Harbor investigation, the housing shortage nor this week's Big Three meeting, not even Santa Claus -had been able to drive the bomb from topmost place in the U.S. mind...
With this machine, built after years of trial & error, of inference and deduction, cryptographers had duplicated the decoding devices used in Tokyo. Testimony before the Pearl Harbor Committee had already shown that the machine-known in Army code as "Magic"-was in use long before Dec. 7, 1941, had given ample warning of the Jap's sneak attack-if only U.S. brass hats had been smart enough to realize it (TIME, Dec. 10). Now General Marshall continued the story of "Magic's" magic...
...Pearl Harbor Committee blithely tossed away one still-secret U.S. weapon. George Marshall's letters to Governor Dewey (see above) mentioned that the U.S., with the help of the British, had decoded German as well as Japanese messages. George Marshall begged the Committee to cut out these references. The Committee refused...
...witness stand stepped Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, chief of the Army's War Plans Division in 1941, to accept full blame for one of Pearl Harbor's most egregious errors. On Nov. 27, a sharp warning of impending hostilities had gone out from General Marshall to Lieut. General Walter C. Short in Hawaii. On Nov. 28, General Short replied that he had ordered an alert against sabotage-which was like saying he had a butterfly net ready for a tiger. Yet his reply was never challenged by Washington...
Turn of the Wheel. He was not master of his house in BuAer. He got no credit for cutting administrative corners to procure new planes which paid off after Pearl Harbor: the Dauntless, the Avenger, the Hellcat. He became Commander, Air, Pacific (in 1942) and it looked like the fulfillment of his dreams, until it turned into desk duty. When a commander was picked for the great central Pacific offensive in 1943, not Jack Towers but Battleshipman Raymond Ames Spruance...