Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spot. When B.A.U. first opened, officers half-expected their khaki charges to idle away their time on the glamorous Basque beaches. Instead, G.l.s lugged their textbooks to the beach when they went swimming, caroused-if at all-only on weekends...
JACOB R. EHRLICH Miami Beach...
...back home with her family in their plushy Beverly Hills home, she is leading the life of any normal, wealthy 17-year-old Californian: hobnobbing with her former school friends and enjoying the Santa Monica beach. She will soon start work on a remake of Little Women...
Across the U.S., from Montauk Point to Malibu Beach, the tide of labor unrest seethed angrily. In oil, automobiles, coal, lumber, textiles and many another industry, there were strikes, shutdowns, and threats of strikes. At one time last week 420,000 workers were idle. While many an industrial plant ran at less than full power because it could not staff its machinery, the first blows of violence rose ominously...
Inventor R. M. Hamilton started in a small way with the "Swiss Roll," a can-vas-and-wood pier to be carried, rolled up, on a ship's deck. During the Normandy invasion, trucks speeded over an unrolled roll to safety on the beach. Final flowering of the idea was Lily...