Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along Long Island's Jones Beach rolled a truck, laying a curtain of thick white fog like a smoke screen. Within a few minutes, flies and mosquitoes in its path were observed to stagger and collapse. In half an hour, every insect on the beach was dead. Next day, the four-mile beach area got another fog dose. By the time weekenders arrived, a few hours later, the DDT beach test was clearly a "100% success...
...clock cocktail date with his wife. A few minutes before 6 he got a telephone summons from the Navy. Sullivan rushed off, learned that his assignment was to salvage the U.S.S. Wakefield, then burning off the Newfoundland coast. He flew to the ship, took her in to a beach he had picked out from the plane, later brought the Wakefield home. Mrs. Sullivan, whom he stood up that evening in New York, has seen him only three days since...
...Sullivan's right hand in Manila is Commander Byron S. Huie Jr., 40, a former Treasury attorney whose salvage units rescued 2,340 men from the waters off Omaha Beach in the first 48 hours after Dday. Both the Commodore and his executive officer work right alongside their men in easy informality, sometimes have to argue their zealous divers into knocking off work. The strangest fruit they have plucked out of Manila harbor: a Jap ship filled with glass marbles...
...beach on D-day would hardly recognize their hellish beachhead nowadays. Eight thousand Seabees under Commodore Robert Johnson have built some of the world's longest runways, moved four million cubic yards of earth and even sliced the top off Mt. Suribachi. A Japanese major who recently came out of a cave blinked around and paid the Seabees the ultimate tribute. Said he: "Impossible...
...whereabouts unknown for nearly two weeks, the Student Council Report on undergraduate activities, scheduled for release early this term, turned up this week in Daytona Beach, Florida. Daniel P. S. Paul '46, graduating Student Council member, is still tabulating the questionnaires which were distributed in June to determine the extent of undergraduate participation in student organizations, and the report will probably not be ready until Fall...