Word: decks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of these women . . . gave to these ships such things as athletic equipment, ship's libraries, silver pitchers and trays, deck chairs, radios, victrolas, etc., and we hope that they are still giving pleasure to the men on board the ships today...
...Deck. Emanuel's cloak-&-dagger manner and his name (his mother merely liked the name Victor, had no thought of Italy's ex-King) have caused some to suspect him of having an exotic foreign background. Actually, V.E. is as endemically American as flapjacks and maple syrup. He was born in Dayton, the son of a wealthy utilities man. It was a wonderful time and place to grow up in. Only two doors away Charles F. Kettering was working on a magical invention that would start autos automatically; Orville Wright skittered around in one of the first airplanes...
...G.I.s, the few paintings of Japanese defeat seemed absurdly dignified. Renzo Kita's Last Moments of Admiral Yamaguchi showed the Admiral among his officers on the flaming flight deck of the aircraft carrier Hiryo, preparing with a tight smile to toast the Emperor in sake...
...encountered wind, cold and rain. Then he had found himself struggling against the nameless indignities of seasickness. As the yacht rolled southeast on her hunt for the sun he had bribed his queasy stomach with seasick pills. But now, in the harbor of Hamilton, Bermuda, the deck was solid, the water blue, and there were white coral, pastel walls and green foliage ashore...
Some of the fabrications are reasonably white. No more than standard hokum is transfused into healthy Dana by inventing Hero Alan Ladd, even though he practically crowds Author Dana (Brian Donlevy) off the screen. And since Mr. Ladd is on deck, love interest (Esther Fernandez) has to be expected, though Author Dana and his shipmates somehow did without...