Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received from Henry Ford II (with approval of the OPA) a pearl-grey, four-door Ford sedan, first off the postwar Ford production line...
...which he would play the leading part. He made sure that he would be accompanied, at the final surrender ceremony, by high officers who had been with him in the darkest Philippine days. Their presence, and that of the old West Virginia, temporarily sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, would not be lost on the Japs...
Said a Veterans' Affairs Department spokesman last week: U.S. citizens who served in the Dominion's armed forces in World War II (most of them before Pearl Harbor) are entitled to a gratuity of $7.50 for each 30 days of service, plus 25? for every day served overseas, plus seven days pay for every six months overseas.* Only about 2,000 (of 12,000 eligibles) have applied, said the Department. The "rest probably don't know about...
...After Pearl Harbor, both Spalding and Wilson turned their precision machinery to the manufacture of small arms and tank helmets. They had gone on making some sports equipment, but the military had snapped up almost 80% of it. Last week, with all arms contracts canceled, the first dribble of postwar sporting goods was on its way to the nation...
Hero Al Schmid (John Garfield), a 21-year-old Philadelphia machinist, joined the Corps shortly after Pearl Harbor and became a machine-gunner. One night on Guadalcanal, defending a river crossing, he killed some 200 Japanese. Toward morning, a grenade went off in his face and ended the war, for him, in blindness...