Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frontier Question. In Radford's command is the Navy's far-flung string of Pacific bases, from Pearl Harbor to the projected new base at Camranh Bay in Indo-China. Pearl and Guam are the main bases for repair and service of warships, as well as for staging land-based air. Okinawa, a major base for the Air Force's B-29s, is not now being used by the Navy but is on standby status. So is Kwajalein. Two bases in Japan (Yokosuka and Sasebo) are capable of handling large naval forces, and a twin base...
...dedicated and fervent antiCommunist. One of the things he is not is a military strategist (he admitted, when he became Secretary, that his knowledge of naval affairs was confined to operating a rowboat). As Navy Secretary, he had apparently got to thinking of the danger of being Pearl...
...Child Who Never Grew, by Pearl - Buck. The simple and memorable story
...Novelist Pearl Buck's effort to make a life for her mentally retarded child (TIME, July...
...Child Who Never Grew, by Pearl Buck. The simple and memorable story of Novelist Pearl Buck's effort to make a life for her mentally retarded child (TIME, July...