Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Harry Dexter White entered the Treasury Department as a research assistant in 1934, he rose steadily into high position and gained the personal favor of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthan. On the heels of Pearl Harbor, White was empowered under Department Order 43 with "full responsibility for all matters with which the Treasury Department has to deal having a bearing on foreign relations." Under the same order he was to serve as liaison between Treasury and State and manage the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund in international exchange...
...Atheneum, started as a private library and art gallery, first opened its doors in Scollay Square in 1807. Sensitive to the rapidly changing character of Scollay, the library stayed only two years, moving to Pearl St. in 1809. After a short sojourn on Pearl St. the Atheneum was driven by the growing clatter of commercial Boston to its present site on Beacon...
...were B-17s and P-40s neatly parked on Clark Field for Japanese bombers to pick off hours after Air Chief "Hap" Arnold had alerted responsible officers to the news of Pearl Harbor, and 45 minutes after air spotters had radioed reports of approaching Japanese planes? Historian Morton's best guess: fouled-up communications, command indecision. The cost: 99 planes destroyed out of a total of 277, and the offensive power of the Air Force in the Philippines crippled. Some matters Historian Morton resolves plainly and bluntly. The Philippine army, constituting more than half of MacArthur...
...defenses, and finally takes him into her camp as a lifetime ally. In Huxley's The Farcical History of Richard Greenow, a brilliant young man is possessed of a sister personality. When he isn't functioning as himself, Richard Greenow, a fighting pacifist, he is operating as Pearl Bellairs, a violently patriotic war propagandist-all of which permits Author Huxley to aim his wit at two political extremes and much that is in between...
After their official Navy sedan conked out, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Robert B. Carney and the Pacific Fleet's commanding Admiral Felix B. Stump, on their way to a reception for Carney at Pearl Harbor, proceeded in a style to which they are unaccustomed. Hitchhiker Carney arrived in a small British sports car, Stump in a half-ton pickup truck...