Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Helena steamed toward Pearl Harbor, the U.S. began to sense the real effects of Eisenhower's trip. By plane he dispatched his new Defense Secretary Charles Wilson and J.C.S. Chairman Omar Bradley to Pearl Harbor to preside over a series of conferences on the military aspects of the situation. By plane and helicopter he brought his new Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his close White House advisers to join him aboard the cruiser for high-policy discussions. By the time the two task forces joined in Hawaii, they would be able to match and mesh...
Five days after Pearl Harbor, the SEC banned all trading in Japanese bonds and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue ruled such issues to be worthless. Many U.S. investors who held 14 issues of Japanese dollar bonds with a face value of $76 million lost hope of ever being repaid; some wrote them off as losses in tax returns. But in November 1950, SEC permitted trading to resume. Speculators drove up the prices. One issue (1930 dollar 5½%) rose from 60 on the opening day to 95½ last July...
...NOVELIST PEARL BUCK: "I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels...
...Married. Pearl Bailey, 34, Negro blues singer; and Louis Bellson Jr., 28, white drummer in Duke Ellington's band; she for the fourth time ("All this is just crazy but oh my, we're happy"), he for the first; over the threats of Bellson Sr., owner of a music store in Moline, Ill.; in London's Caxton Hall registry, while hundreds of bebop fans waited outside...
...dust was settling over the ruin at Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt decided that the U.S. Fleet needed a new commander. He chose a man who was tall, straight as the spruce spar of an old ship-of-the-line, and as hard as the chrome-steel armor around his own battleships. His name was Ernest Joseph King. Nobody has ever offered a better explanation for his selection than King himself gave when he arrived in Washington to take over: "When they get into trouble, they send for the sons of bitches...