She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: Life During War

  • Average Annual Retail Price of Gasoline

    YEAR GASOLINE PRICE(CURRENT DOLLARS/GALLON) GASOLINE PRICE(CONSTANT 2011 DOLLARS/GALLON) 1929 0.21 2.29 1930 0.20 2.21 1931 0.17 2.10 1932 0.18 2.51 1933 0.18 2.56 1934 0.19 2.57 1935 0.19 2.52 1936 0.19 2.57 1937 0.20 2.53 1938 0.20 2.55 1939 0.19 2.47 1940 0.18 2.40 1941 0.19 2.35 1942 0.20 2.31 1943 0.21 2.20 1944 0.21…

  • Counterfeit Money Most Be Reported

    Source: “Counterfeit Money Most Be Reported.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 28 Mar. 1941, p. 13. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/127787027/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/127786938/

  • The President Speaks

  • Hysterical Buying

    Source:”‚“Hysterical Buying.” Pike County Dispatch, 28 Aug. 1941, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/pike-county-dispatch/137957058/

  • The Social Front: Jobs and Workers

    Source: “The Social Front: Jobs and Workers.” Survey Midmonthly: Journal of Social Work, Nov. 1941, pp. 330”“332.

  • The U.S. At War: Still More Incredible

    Even after the incredible attack on Pearl Harbor nobody dreamed that the West Coast could be in danger from the Japanese coming from 5,500 miles away””any more than anyone dreamed that New York could be in danger from the Germans 3,000 miles off. Then right after sunset Monday the incredible happened again. San Francisco had…

  • The U.S. At War, Tragedy at Honolulu

    The U.S. Navy was caught with its pants down. Within one tragic hour””before the war had really begun””the U.S. appeared to have suffered greater naval losses than in the whole of World War I.* Days may pass before the full facts become known, but in the scanty news that came through from Hawaii in the…

  • CIVILIAN FRONT: Los Angeles Gets Ready

    Los Angeles County likes to talk about its orange-juice joints, tabernacles, oil wells and graving docks, keep a stiff and silent upper lip over its floods and earthquakes. Nevertheless, to deal with such occasional unpleasantnesses, it has a Major Disaster Committee. Last week, just before Japan loosed its bombs on Pearl Harbor, an expanded version…

  • The U.S. At War, CIVILIAN DEFENSE: To Meet the Improbable

    The block wardens met at 8 p.m. in the Borough Hall. It was like a town meeting. The atmosphere was serious, solemn, a little ponderous. They were practical men, met to discuss practical steps to be taken. Nobody suggested the extreme improbability of the Luftwafte bombing this little country town; all the discussion, all the…