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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hingham was born late, when other New England yards had drained off all the skilled labor in sight. On February 19, 1942, its ground-breaking day, the 140-acre site contained an archery course, a bumpy little airport. The rambling grey buildings of the new yard were still going up when the first LCI keel was laid...
With his carrier forces commanding the air over northern Japan, and his gunnery ships commanding the seas within sight of its shores, there was no telling to what lengths Halsey might go in succeeding days. His love of spectacular improvisation knew no limits...
...that was the real reason for Claire Chennault's resignation: he could conclude that his superiors regarded him as good enough to build up the China air force and to fight in it in the lean days but not good enough to command it when victory was in sight. Or perhaps it was just that hard-bitten Claire Chennault was not diplomatic enough to fit in any more...
This week final U.S. action was in sight. The-House had already passed a Bretton Woods bill; now the Senate had taken it up. Ahead was a test of two great issues: 1) could international cooperation of a very difficult kind be translated from oratory into practice? 2) could world trade be returned to free enterprise...
Some of the laymen were no less anxious than the professionals: Riveter Audrey Korhel, who had come all the way from Seattle to see the sight; Minneapolis Amateur Astronomer W. D. Morgan, who had waited all his life to see a full eclipse; Washington Schoolteacher Wallace Goodlow, who had been making plans for the trip for 13 years...