Word: berthing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tomich worked slowly up the promotion ladder. By Dec. 7, 1941 he wore the chevrons of a chief petty officer and the hash-marks of an oldtimer. That day, C.P.O. Tomich was below, where he belonged, when the Japs began their attack on the old battleship Utah in her berth at Pearl Harbor...
...arrived in Oklahoma City late that afternoon, expecting a reservation (for which I wired ahead two days previous). . . . Reporting to the train at the appointed hour, I found that although I already possessed a Pullman reservation, it had been sold again to a civilian who already occupied the berth (it being then 11 o'clock). Therefore, I rode in a coach sitting upon my suitcase-no seats there either, all night and half of the next day-contemplating my reservation, which I still held blissfully in my hand. I finally got a seat in the men's room...
...yacht: Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Harding, Coolidge reviewed the fleet from her decks. Presidents Taft and Wilson entertained bigwigs on board. In 1929 President Hoover decided she was too costly; she was decommissioned and unsuccessfully offered for sale six separate times. In 1931 she caught fire and sank at her berth in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Then the Mayflower was put up for scrap, sold to a Chicago bidder for a dismal $16,105. The Chicago firm resold her to a Wilmington, N. C. company, which in turn resold the hulk to the War Department two years...
...Berth for "Bunk...
Dollar-a-year men get $10 subsistence allowance for every day spent in Washington or on official trips, plus first-class travel allowances (parlor car or lower berth). At that, they are a bargain. Most of them spend about $20 a day to live with their wives in crowded Washington. When they go home for weekends, they pay their own expenses and lose their $10-a-day allowance. During all trips away from the capital they also have to go on paying hotel rent-or find their room taken by others when they return...