Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marine platoon presented arms, the bugler played "To the Colors" as the U.S. flag fluttered up the staff. From under the rustling coconut palms a solemn group of natives watched the formal institution of U.S. military rule. This was the first segment of the Japanese Empire to be captured by the U.S.-one of the outer atolls of the Marshall Islands...
...know of no better way to accomplish [continued operation] than to vest ownership and control of these Government plants in the men and women who have served in the armed forces. . . . Giving to each of them a share in the ownership and control of a giant segment of American industry would amount to giving them a stake in the future of the democratic economy of America which they are fighting to preserve. It would be the most beneficial form of a bonus payment...
...Blow. At Palau it looked as if the Jap Navy would choose to retire from another segment of the Pacific rather than give battle. Japanese scout planes had sighted the U.S. battle force as it approached, and long before the U.S. fleet hove in sight, Japanese vessels fled from the harbor...
More important, to many Navymen's thinking (including CINCPAC Admiral Chester Nimitz), is the type of ships the subs specialize in sinking: Japan's hard-pressed tankers. It may have been U.S. submarines, not U.S. battleships or carriers, that forced the Japs to pull a big segment of their fleet out of Truk-because a shortage of tankers may have prevented adequate deliveries...
Despite these moves and decisions, the nation's capital still had a hollow feeling. This came from the belief that U.S.-Soviet relations had reached a point of new delicacy. Shaken by the rough-&-tumble diplomatic maneuvers of the Soviet Union, the Administration was worried lest a considerable segment of the U.S. might come to feel that the U.S. was fighting merely to make Europe safe for Russia. Such a feeling might be disastrous in an election year...