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...Pacific fleet that had miraculously been on patrol when the dive bombers struck Pearl Harbor, and 2) build such strong defenses on its newly won island bases that no new U.S. force, no matter how strong, could possibly break through to disturb the inner empire. The island of Midway, 1.136 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor, was to be the final link in this defense chain. At the end of May 1942, some 200 ships, the bulk of the Imperial Navy, converged for an invasion of Midway and a second surprise attack on the battered Pacific fleet...
...then, Nimitz was ready. From a reading of the Japanese "Purple Code," deciphered by Army cryptographers nearly a year before, naval intelligence knew an attack was planned at invasion point "AF." Washington thought that "AF" was Hawaii itself. Nimitz was certain it was Midway. He bolstered the little island with every plane he could spare, ordered nearly every ship in his command to rendezvous just outside what he thought would be the farthest radius of Japanese air patrols. Nimitz urged on his commanders the same policy principle of "calculated risk" that he himself had followed in ordering his ships...
...Midway through World War I, the Australian government decided that it would be patriotic to shut all pubs at 6 p.m. With offices closing at 5, that did not leave much time for serious drinking, but Australians learned to make the most of it. Like alcoholic camels, they stowed away great amounts of beer in short amounts of time, capping it all with what is known as "the 6 o'clock swill"-ordering up to half a dozen beers a minute before the "beeroff" bell, gulping them down in the 15 minutes before the barmaids had to collect...
Harvard had trailed, 30 to 20 at halftime, but began to capitalize on a Princeton cold spell and a number of fouls called on the Tigers. Princeton went scoreless for seven minutes midway through the half, and with 11:20 to play Harvard had tied the game...
...tiny island of Singapore, strategically situated midway between India and China, has long been a commercial center of Southeast Asia. It processes and exports rubber, tin, pepper and copra from Malaya and Borneo, imports machinery from Australia, Britain and the U.S. Its trade has made it a leading banking, warehousing and insurance city in Asia. When Singapore joined with neighboring Malaya, nearby Sarawak and North Borneo in 1963 to form the rich Federation of Malaysia its 1.8 million people prepared expectantly for a boom in business...