Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lillie Add, their contract (cancellable on a week's notice) provided $25 a week base pay, time and a half for all work over 60 hours, a furnished private room, nutritious diet, use of the telephone, sick leave, church time, uniforms, a week's vacation with pay. For Mrs. Bettman, it provided at least the promise of steady help...
Political Minutiae. If the plan was not realistic, what was it? Clearly, each of the three services was trying to make itself as big and important as possible against the day when Congress might merge them. The Navy had a clear duty and responsibility for overseas bases and the ships to base there-but beyond that, the Navy was trying to make itself too big a mouse for the Army-Air Force cat to swallow if the dreaded merger should come...
...Atlantic, the chain of outposts would not be pushed so far, but it might be equally strong. Here, all the bases sought by the Navy are already established, either on U.S. territory or on sites acquired in the 1940 destroyers-for-bases deal with Britain. Outstanding among them is the great naval operating base at Roosevelt Roads in eastern Puerto Rico, which could not be finished in time for the Battle of the Atlantic, now to be left to the caretakers, ready for quick use in an emergency...
...last August's treaty between Chungking and Moscow, Russia acquired a 30-year partnership in the main Manchurian railways, a joint naval base at Port Arthur and a free port at Dairen. Last week the Russians were said to be asking for a share in operating Manchurian mines, heavy industry and telephone lines. For the new Soviet citizens from Shanghai, the prospects indeed looked rosy...
When the Warden heard about Prisoner Stiles's leisure-time project, he sent some Stiles drawings to nearby Mare Island naval base. The Navy offered tools and materials, later supplied a human guinea pig: 25-year-old Lieut. Howard Pollack, who had lost his right arm in the South Pacific campaign. Stiles, with Lieut. Pollack's cooperation, eventually developed an artificial hand which he claimed would tweeze, grip, poke, carry and press. A Stiles-equipped amputee might thus be able to bowl, play golf, pick up a pin, hold a cigaret, button his own sleeve...