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After World War II, the generals of the newly-formed U. S. Air Force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor like surprise attack or war against the United States.
* 1892 Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1973 )
Some models were equipped with the $ 1000 optional premium package on the Forester S, including monotone paint ( Sedona Red Pearl ), power moonroof, front side-impact airbags, and gold accent wheels.
King linked Canada more and more closely to the United States, signing an agreement with Roosevelt at Ogdensburg, New York in August 1940 that provided for the close cooperation of Canadian and American forces, despite the fact that the U. S. remained officially neutral until the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
On 7 December, the Japanese attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, causing the U. S. to declare war on Japan the next day.
Louis enlisted in the U. S. Army on January 10, 1942 in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
* January 27 WWII Attack on Pearl Harbor: Joseph C. Grew, the U. S. ambassador to Japan, reports to Washington a rumor overheard at a diplomatic reception concerning a planned surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
* March 6 Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1892 )
* June 26 Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1973 )
* July 24 American Revolutionary War: American forces led by Commodore Dudley Saltonstall launch the Penobscot Expedition in what is now Castine, Maine, resulting in the worst naval defeat in U. S. history until Pearl Harbor.
Seven months later, the U. S. was drawn into World War II with the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
* The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
To isolate the American forces stationed in the Philippines and to reduce American naval power, the Imperial General Headquarters ordered an attack on the U. S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 7 December 1941.
* 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Purple machine itself was first used by Japan in June 1938, but U. S. and British cryptanalysts had broken some of its messages well before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
* In Pearl S. Buck's 1931 novel The Good Earth, hero Wang Lung leaves his land to travel southward during a drought.
The acts were largely repealed in 1941, in the face of German submarine attacks on U. S. vessels and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The U. S. formally declared war on Japan on 8 December 1941 following the attack on Pearl Harbor of the previous day ; Germany and Italy declared war on the U. S. on 11 December 1941, and the U. S. responded with a declaration of war on the same day.
When the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, he left college to enlist in the U. S. Army Air Corps ; however, the Army did not call him up, and in March 1942 he enlisted as a United States Navy aviation cadet.
It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming ( uncredited ) and Gustav Machaty ( uncredited ).
Rains began his career in the London theatre, having a success in the title role of John Drinkwater's play Ulysses S. Grant, the follow-up to the playwright's major hit Abraham Lincoln, and travelled to Broadway in the late 1920s to act in leading roles in such plays as Shaw's The Apple Cart and in the dramatisations of The Constant Nymph, and Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth, as a Chinese farmer.

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Intelligent people will admit that bombs and rockets of destruction are frightening whether they fall on Japan, London or Pearl Harbor.
A little farther along the road you come to the Church of Santa Sabina, called the `` Pearl of the Aventine ''.
They knew that I was still grieving over the tragic event, and they felt that if I could see the recovery and the spirit of the people, who hold no grudge, but who also regret Pearl Harbor, I would be happier and would understand better a new Japan.
Mayor William B. Hartsfield filed suit for divorce from his wife, Pearl Williams Hartsfield, in Fulton Superior Court Friday.
But the greater reason for fumbling, stumbling American leadership is due to the shock her pride suffered when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor.
* Oliner, Samuel P. and Pearl M. Towards a Caring Society: Ideas into Action.
* 1517 Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
They started mass production after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Other locations and landmarks that have become part of American folklore include: Independence Hall, Ellis Island, Hoover Dam, Pearl Harbor, the Vietnam War Memorial, and the Grand Canyon.
In the Pearl of Great Price's section containing part of Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible's book of Moses, it refers to " a Book of Remembrance ", written in the language of Adam.
* Iridescent, Pearl, and Interference Acrylic Colors combine conventional pigments with powdered mica ( aluminum silicate ) or powdered bronze to achieve complex effects.
" Clampett ; Irene Ryan as his ornery mother-in-law, Daisy May " Granny " Moses ; Donna Douglas as his curvaceous, tom-boy daughter Elly May Clampett ; and Max Baer, Jr. as Jethro, the brawny, half-witted son of his cousin Pearl Bodine.
Pearl ( played by Bea Benaderet ) appeared in most of the first season episodes, as did Jethro's twin sister Jethrine, played by Baer in drag, using Linda Kaye Henning's voiceover.
Pearl was the relative who prodded Jed to move to California, after being told his modest property could yield $ 25 million.
" Pearl milk tea " is also used by English speakers and overseas Chinese and Taiwanese speakers, but it is usually called bubble tea.
Some place names have become synonymous with the battles that took place there, such as the Passchendaele, Pearl Harbor, the Alamo, Thermopylae, or Waterloo.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled to Pearl Harbor to personally meet both commanders and hear their arguments.
For his last game, the theme from Pearl Harbor, " There You'll Be " by Faith Hill, was featured.
Brian Lara has established the Pearl and Bunty Lara Foundation, which is a charitable organisation in memory of his parents that aims to address health and social care issues.
They were married on Pearl Harbor Day, 1985.

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