Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cruise, scheduled to last three hours, was over in 40 minutes. Last week the Americans gasped out the reason, in reports whose most sensational sins were those of omission. Impressed, apparently, by the fact that the SPARS were in show business, the Canadian crew had readied themselves for a mild saturnalia. When the SPARS and tars boarded the tug,_ a keg of rum was close at hand. The tug crew, said the witnesses, was already so far in its cups that only two were fit for duty. The others were good-natured but persistent. They began to "molest" the SPARS...
Informal sports for which the certificates will be given out include football, baseball, basketball, track, crew, cross country, tennis, soccer, squash, rugby, and lacrosse. Swimming, wrestling, polo, hockey, golf, skiing and fencing teams have been abandoned altogether for the duration, and consequently offer no awards...
...over Belgium when seven Messerschmitts attacked. Bullets ignited an oxygen tank, which threatened to explode the Fortress' bomb load. Lean, young (36) General Castle refused to jettison the load, because U.S. troops were underneath. With two engines afire, he leveled out, and stayed at the controls while his crew bailed out. He was still in the plane when a fuel tank exploded, sent plane and pilot to the ground in flames...
...Fighting Lady (U.S. Navy-20th Century-Fox) is the fiercely beautiful and thrilling color record of an aircraft carrier's career from her launching through her first half-dozen engagements.* It was shot during the past couple of years by a crew of six enlisted men, coached by famed photographer Captain Edward Steichen, and directed by Lieut. Commander Dwight Long. Their combined mileage was cut to its present 7,500 feet and 60 minutes by Fox's Louis de Rochemont, first producer of the MARCH OF TIME, whose first Hollywood film this is. John Stuart Martin, formerly...
...November 1943 the U.S. freighter Volunteer, crammed with explosives, lay at anchor in Halifax Harbor. Suddenly she caught fire. If she blew up, she would probably blow up a good deal of Halifax too. At first her crew fought the flames with extinguishers, finally broke wireless silence to flash an S O S. The Navy's harbor master, Commander (now Captain) Owen Robertson, rushed aboard with a special crew. But still the fire gained...