Word: craning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After ten months fighting with the Finish army and the French Foreign Legion and serving the Czech, Norwegian, and French civil governments, this year may well seem a bit tame for John Crane-Baker...
Caught in France last fall when the war began, Crane-Baker, who would have been a Sophomore had he returned to college then, began immediately to serve the Allies in any capacity which he could fill. His jobs ranged from machine gunner in a Finish bombing plane to translator in the French bureau of North American Propaganda, and he ended his year's career with an amazing Odyssey which carried him through Norway, Sweden, Germany, Italy, and German-occupied France before he arrived at Lisbon and the Atlantic Clipper...
...Finally when I had spent all my money trying to get back to Norway, I decided to return to France, Crane-Baker related last night. "The only way was through Germany. I shook in my boots all the way through on the train, but I got to Rome safely and crossed the border into France. Two days later Italy declared...
...Increased construction boosted Crane Co.'s valve, toilet & tub sales, raised earnings for the year (ending June 30) to $5,722,830, against $2,013,655 last year...
...China. In Serbia he met a Bishop who entertained himself each morning by taking shots at an old rabbit on the hillside. He wouldn't let R. S. shoot; he was afraid R. S. might hit the rabbit. On the boat to Mexico he made friends with Hart Crane, "a generous, warmhearted person, obviously drinking hard because of intense unhappiness." R. S. loved liquor, France, poetry, music, ribald talk, the division of his life between teaching and research, and the sound of his own voice. He profoundly admired Herbert Hoover for his relief work...