Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Beach, Calif...
Even on vacation, California's Governor Earl Warren gained in political stature last week. He displayed himself, with his wife and four of his six children on the beach at Santa Monica, as one of the few top-flight U.S. politicos who is not a hilarious figure in swimming trunks...
...riding at anchor off Guadal when a sub's torpedo blasted her. Gasoline and ammunition started going up. Her captain, Commander James S. Freeman, decided to try to save her, ordered up anchor and full speed ahead. Listing 18°, the Alchiba crunched on to the beach...
...blazed on the beach, her stores of flour, raisins and rice fermented. "A moonshiner's dream," the exec called it. "We could have made enough liquor to supply the whole station, including the press...
...Washington the Navy announced the end of the Alchiba. But on the beach at Guadalcanal salvage crews pumped her out, patched her bulkheads, got her afloat. At a repair base, Seabees made her seaworthy enough to risk the 5,800-mile trip home. During that three-week voyage the sea sloshed in & out of the two holes in her, one 39 ft. across, the other 47. At a west coast shipyard engineers discovered that her keel was broken in two places...