Word: causeway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News last week reported news of this new U.S. air front. In a dispatch datelined "A Labrador Air Base," Newsman B. J. McQuaid told how construction crews waded ashore from ships off Labrador, cut down trees and built rafts to float their first equipment ashore, then built a corduroy causeway to the ships, then hauled enough tools and material ashore to build a dock. Afterward, in 20-ft. snows, they cleared a roadway 100 miles inland, built an airport complete with runways, hangars, living quarters...
...eliminated. Men who are graduates of secondary institutions and high schools and who are desirable officer material and physically and otherwise qualified can establish mental qualifications by the satisfactory completion of an examination given by the Navy. Men interested should apply directly to the Navy Flight Board at 150 Causeway Street...
...boat was puttering past the subway bridge, a man attempting suicide leaped from the causeway into the water, and the occupants of the launch hurried to try and snatch him from the depths. After William J. Bingham, Director of Athletics, lost hold of the man, and a rope thrown from the bridge fell too short, the water-soaked victim went under twice. But William Atchley '43, assistant crew manager, pulled him not the best before he sank for the third time, and the shivering death-defler was taken to the Municipal District Commission...
Further information may be had at the following Naval Reserve Recruiting Offices, 13th Floor, 150 Causeway St., Boston; Naval Reserve Armory, Old Pest Office Building, Portland Maine, where a few minutes heart-to-heart talk with an understanding officer will help you and where your particular talents can be used to your advantage and Uncle...
...tank detachment scuttered into the town. A train rumbled across the repaired causeway. A fleet steamed up the harbor to the naval base. Singapore was Japanese...