Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terse message went back to the task unit's flagship, the U.S.S. Card, an unarmored merchant ship equipped with an aircraft landing deck: "Scratch one pig-boat-am searching for more." The Borie found another huge pigboat on the surface. Cried a signalman: "My God, what is it, the Bremen?" In ten to 30 seconds the Bone's guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from...
...Task Force 21.14-the Card, the 1919 destroyers Barry, Goff and the late Borie-last week went a Presidential Unit Citation for destroying "more submarines than any other team in Naval history." That beats a previous high scorer: the escort carrier "B" (TIME, July 26), another "baby flat-top," and her escorts. Their pigboat score: eleven probables, three certains...
...match was the climax of the entertainment presented to the V-12 Unit in its first smoker. Other minor bouts were on the card earlier in the program matching V-12ers against each other in both boxing and wrestling, while a novel note was introduced in the bout between a wrestler and a boxer...
...sentence of $100 fine and three days in jail was rendered by a District Court in Austin, Tex. against Mr. Thomas for contempt of that court's order restraining him from soliciting members in a C.I.O. union in Texas without an organizer's card...
...postage-paid order card, showing our Christmas rates on gifts of TIME for your civilian friends, is bound into this issue to help you enter your order early-and I hope you will try to mail it back to me with your instructions before the weekend...