Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...docks seven weeks ago was growing to a stream. Freighters arrived and unloaded autos, Christmas tinsel, cattle feed, canned soup and nylons, left the same day with their holds crammed with bagged raw sugar and cases of pineapple. But when the pineapple-laden freighters hit the U.S. West Coast, their "hot" cargoes found a warm reception from Bridges' longshoremen. At The Dalles, Ore., on the Columbia River, one skipper abandoned efforts to unload his cargo after Bridges' men mauled a pick-up crew of local farmers and cowhands. Trucks were smashed, machinery damaged and several truck drivers beaten...
...million House bill, increasing pay rates for men & officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Guard, Air National Guard, Coast & Geodetic Survey and Public Health Service...
Bestselling Novelist Willard (Knock on Any Door) Motley looked suspiciously like a mugger to Chicago police, as he prowled about the Gold Coast early one morning, absorbing local color. He talked strangely, too, after the cops picked him up. "I'm a jack-roller," he cracked, refusing to give his name, "but the pickings are pretty thin tonight." Later, at the station house, he let them in on the gag, and they let him off on $10 bond...
Commander Carl I. Aslakson of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey recently noted that a long series of land measurements made by shoran (a kind of radar) had gone wrong. Each measurement went wrong by the same small percentage. The measurers checked their instruments, checked their procedures. Everything was shipshape. The only thing left to account for the errors was the speed of light itself. With a guilty feeling and bated breaths, they shaded the sacred figure a tiny bit and made the measurements again. Everything came out exactly right...
Sailing against a 12-college field will be Frank Scully, Charlie McElroy, John Bishop, and Tom Carroll. These four will put to sea against M.I.T., Yale, Navy, Coast Guard, Princeton, and four other American schools, as well as representatives from Toronto and McGill...