Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lifeline's anchor, Pearl Harbor, an indispensable adjunct to any fleet operation in the Pacific and the only major base west of the mainland, looked safe from all-out attack even by suicide units. From the Navy's bases on Ford Island, in Pearl Harbor yard, and at Kaneohe Bay, on Oahu's windward side, Navy patrol planes ranged ceaselessly out to sea. Their great circles of reconnaissance lapped each other, lapped the circle of Navy patrols from Alaska's Dutch Harbor. Except for the Japanese spies that teemed in Honolulu, the Navy felt safe...
...their first ship, the Alsina, set out from Dakar, Vichy changed its mind. For four and a half months the refugees were held aboard the ship while it lay at anchor off the African port. It was worse than a concentration camp. There was no torture, only heat, hardship and the constant reminder that they had once almost been free...
...office or in his two-room air-conditioned suite at the Manila Hotel (where he hangs his high-pressure cap in the window to let his boys know he's at home), Tommy Hart can see the crescent bay where most of his fleet now rides at anchor. In the distance he can see the radio towers of the Cavite naval base and ahead, if the day is clear, the looming bulk of Corregidor, the Gibraltar that guards Manila. Close by he can see the merchantmen at Manila's big pier 7 busily unloading the precious stuff that...
Last week, as it was in every U.S. war since 1831, Roebling was busy with defense orders-some 75% of its current work. It was turning out huge harbor defense nets, degaussing cable, wiring for battleships and cantonments, signal wire, anchor cables for captive balloons, instrument parts. At the dinner were three great grandsons of John Roebling-Joseph M. and Major Ferdinand W. Roebling III, both vice presidents, and Charles Roebling Tyson, secretary-treasurer. The Roebling family still owns all but a few shares of Roebling stock...
Founder of the quartet and anchor man during its 26 years was hulking, virile Cellist C. Warwick Evans. He is now with the Pro Arte Quartet, which is attached to the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Jan. 27), has been playing in California this summer. The London quartet's last two violinists, tall John Pennington and deadpan Thomas W. Petre have been playing in cinema studio orchestras. Only dapper William Primrose had far to travel for the reunion-from Manhattan, where he is the NBC Symphony's crack viola player...