Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retired from the Army in 1937; but he had a showy new title: Field Marshal of the new Philippine Army. In 1941, six months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt restored MacArthur to duty as a full general with the title of Commander of U.S. Forces in the Far East. By V-J day, when he took the Japanese surrender aboard U.S.S. Missouri, Douglas MacArthur had made himself one of the most famous commanders in U.S. history. He became Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) in Japan 5½ years ago, Commander of U N Forces in Korea within...
...would take a bold undertaker to deny that Los Angeles is today the queen or pearl of the funeral parlor, crematorium and graveyard world. Where else have American mass-production methods been so ingeniously utilized in delivering the defunct citizen to terminal rest? Where else are rites so cheap and splendid, the morticians so tanned and jolly? Where else does sunshine and music so fully flood the funeral home...
Mitchell Red Cloud had become a fighting man early in life-almost as early as if he had lived when his Sioux ancestors were warring on the Great Plains. He had left high school, before Pearl Harbor, to join up with the Marines and win his expert rifleman's badge, had served at Midway Island, through the thickest of the struggle on Guadalcanal, and in many a mission with Carlson's Raiders. He had weighed 195 Ibs. when he joined the Marines, only 115 when he was mustered out. But when the Korean war began Mitchell Red Cloud...
...Hackensack River and swam it like a beaver heading for a woodyard. As he emerged dripping, on the other side, he thought, dazedly, that he ought to call the fire department. This was unnecessary. Windows had been broken and the populace jolted for miles around; the fire departments of Pearl River, Sparkill, Orangeburg, Park Ridge, Northvale and Montvale were already on their way. So were assorted ambulances and police cars...
...stockpile all at once, gave speculators their big chance. Stormed Johnson: "The tin price gouging by some of our oldest international friends is entirely devoid of morality." He urged the Government to get out of the market, especially since it has more tin on hand than before Pearl Harbor (151,941 tons...