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Word: chaser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hell Hat was launched last week at the Albina yards at Portland (Ore.). She is a PCE submarine chaser.* She is named for a woman, who is nicknamed after her hat. The woman is Jean Muir, Oregon Journal reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From Drip to Ship | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...antisub vessels will have predominantly Negro crews. A destroyer escort will be manned by 160 Negroes and 44 whites, a patrol chaser by 52 Negroes and nine whites. The whites will hold billets requiring specialized training, will ail be replaced by Negroes as they qualify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - 22 Officers | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...they naturally wound up in Caponeville, where the customers liked their gin straight with 12 choruses of "Ballin' the Jack" for a chaser...

Author: By S. SGT George avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 11/19/1943 | See Source »

Dartmouth boasts of the best collection of sprinters, with Haegg chaser Don Burnham and a host of NYU's stars from last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSS COUNTRY TEAM BEATEN BY TECH 25-30 | 10/5/1943 | See Source »

Also lost in other U.S. naval operations: in the Mediterranean, the submarine chaser PC 496 and the salvage vessel Redwing. Off the North Carolina coast, the gunboat Plymouth. Presumably in the Pacific, the submarine Pickerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Casualties | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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