Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PEARL BUCK...
...losses in "Greater East Asia" and withdraw into a kind of Asiatic inner fortress, there to concentrate their strength against the blows which they knew would soon fall. Thus, in effect, they confessed the bankruptcy of the imperial venture they had launched three and a half years ago at Pearl Harbor...
...Growing Pearl. Pearl Harbor, which could not even be identified as the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet when those first new carriers returned from their strike at Marcus, is now freely advertised as the rear headquarters of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' command. Pearl Harbor is still growing; the land area surrounding it is still being covered with new hundreds of acres of warehouses, shops and all the other impedimenta of a rear base...
...same with all the other military installations on Oahu. At Barbers Point, ten miles west of Pearl Harbor, the naval air station has an aircraft-engine reconditioning plant on the conveyor-line principle. It is like many another such plant on the mainland, but it is the first and only one in the Pacific. Detroit technology has been transplanted and flourishes amid the pineapple, sugar and coconut plantations...
General's General. So in 1941, the year the Wehrmacht turned from its victories in the West to overrun the Balkans and penetrate Russia, Wedemeyer was assigned to the War Plans Division. His job was to draw up the first overall war plan for the U.S. After Pearl Harbor, his estimates became the basic pattern of the U.S. war effort. By 1942's end, Wedemeyer was a member of Marshall's inner group, a key figure in overall strategy. He had become a general's general. He accompanied General Marshall on all the great conferences from...