Word: conveyance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After surviving the hazards of floating mines, surface raiders, and dive bombers on a convey to Murmansk, seaman Winthrop Haskell is back in Cambridge studying to be a third mate. Souvenirs of his seven-month voyage are the current drawing card at the Russian War Relief headquarters on Dunster Street...
Submarines and convettes guarded the first legs of the convey's to Iceland, through the Denmark Straits where the Bismarck went down, and out from Iceland toward northern England. There the convey split into two parts, for England and Russia, with most of the escorting vessels accompanying the England-bound section...
...convey was unmolested until one day a signal flag was hoisted on the Commodore's ship meaning "Enemy Aircraft Approaching." Crowmen patiently waited for the mistake to be corrected. In less than two minutes the flag was hanled down, but another took its place, the "Attack Imminent" signal. Everyone waited for the "We're Just Foolin" model, but it never came...
...there is also much that is confusing, vague, and smacking of political overemphasis. Whatever the facts and fallacies of the speech, however, the general situation which it presents makes plainer than ever the need of considerable streamlining in the Office of Censorship. When newspaper accounts for several weeks convey the impression of victory, and are suddenly followed by such a speech as Maas', indicating complete failure, it takes no great amount of thought to see that things are not as they should be. The resulting ignorance among the public from this confusion is as complete as it would be under...
This is, of course, no time to start a controversy-it would be out of place and in bad taste-on the contrary, we beg you to convey our best wishes to the boys, and the best of luck. We need lots of the same while struggling with Jack Frost-building an airport north of the General's boulevard terminus...