Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From deck chairs and other flotsam to which they clung, 18 people collected on a life raft. Four were children: Carol and Richard Shaw, whose mother and sister were drowned and whose father had vanished, and Mary and Robert Bell, whose missionary mother was rescued with them. Also dragged out of the sea was the torpedoed merchantman's skipper, 86-year-old Benjamin Bogdan of Brooklyn. Crowded on the raft, the 18 floated on the vast ellipse of the Caribbean. The sun beat down...
...told story which censors released last week from Bridgetown, Barbados, B.W.I., where the exhausted survivors were recovering. There were few details given, but officials did pass the statement of one survivor, who gratefully recalled the courage of seven-year-old Carol Shaw and Brother Richard, of Mary and Robert Bell. Said he: "They kept us going...
Whether or not the nation has manhandled its manpower, it is doing a smart job of mobilizing its boy-& -girl power. Last week Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt sent a directive clear-as-a-school-bell to the nation's 28,000 high schools: No boy or girl was left in doubt about his or her place in the war effort. The directive launched a High School Victory Corps, complete with uniform (a service cap) and specific military assignments. National chief of the Corps is popular Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. ace in the last war (26 planes) and head of Eastern...
...slim fellow over in another corner, with a thin, nervous voice, was speaking very fast--punctuating his talk with short, indrawn laughs. Then everyone laughed again. This time Pag smiled weakly, closed his notebook, and shuffled his feet impatiently as he heard the muffled tones of the hour bell...
...long as he can hear the thump of foot on football. Among the first-rate coaches who have flocked to the Navy's Preflight Training Schools are: Minnesota's Bernie Bierman (Iowa Preflight), Fordham's Jim Crowley (North Carolina Preflight), Southern Methodist's Matty Bell (Georgia Preflight), Southern California's Sam Barry (St. Mary's Preflight...