Word: crewmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next day Pants Paschon and a score of fellow pickets watched a strange-looking train pull out of the T.P. & W.'s East Peoria yards. Ahead of the locomotive was an armored gondola. Behind the engine were three freight cars and a steel caboose. The train carried six crewmen, 14 guards and some guns...
...tiny fruit steamer's gangplank into a stage-idol's welcome in Manhattan, gave swarming reporters and cameramen a performance to remember. Wrapped in mink and hung with diamond-&-sapphire earrings, she got For She's a Jolly Good Fellow from the ship's crewmen, cried back happily, "What more could a girl ask?" and faced the press. "I'm an extinct volcano," said she, but soon became active...
Over the Side, Over the Hill. But every time she put into port, more crewmen had become eligible for a "ruptured duck" lapel button. By last week, 50 officers and 500 men had gone over the side with their bags...
...traveling companions, 27 females (two planeloads) of the royal harem. Four U.S. flyers (who had stayed in Arabia to train the native crew) goggled as brawny slaves lugged the ladies' luggage aboard. But when worldly Prince Feisal, performing a filial chore, shepherded the passengers into the cabin, the crewmen looked the other way. They had been carefully briefed: to stare at the veiled and giggling travelers was to invite death...
Back at last, they did what any bomber's crewmen do at the end of a mission: they told what had happened to their targets. Two of them, Lieut. Robert I. Hite of Earth, Texas and Sergeant Jacob de Shazer of Madras, Ore., had fired fuel tanks and factories in Nagoya. Lieut. C. J. Nielsen of Hyrum, Utah had flown over Tokyo, seen his plane's bombs explode in steel mills and a foundry...