Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress, generally dissatisfied with the Army & Navy Pearl Harbor reports (TIME, Sept. 10), decided last week to make its own investigation...
Pancho Villa, famed Mexican revolutionary of a generation ago, would have been proud to know that Gimbel's Manhattan department store put his pearl-handled six-shooter on sale...
...Pearl Harbor day, Peru (pop. about 7,000,000) had some 25,000 Japanese inhabitants, stoutly loyal to Japan. Strict discipline made sure that Peru-born Japlets grew up authentic Japs. Males went to Japan at 18 for Army service, returned more authentic than ever...
...Pearl Harbor broke the spell. A U.S.Peruvian dragnet swept up the Japanese leaders, sent some 1,500 of them to the U.S. The humbler Japs were not molested; Peruvians hoped that the small fry, freed from Tokyo domination, would not be a serious menace. The 1,500 deportees were still in the U.S. last week. Peru did not care what happened to them so long as they were not shipped back to Peru...
...good, grey New York Times, which prides itself on printing the news (if it's fit and proper) at full length, last week did it again.* It published the entire 130,000 words of the Army & Navy's Pearl Harbor reports. It was quite a job. The Times flew the texts up from Washington, piled up 80 hours of printers' overtime in setting it, tossed out four pages of advertising, dipped into its paper rations to boost its average midweek 155 columns of news to 283 columns, and hit the streets with the full text seven...