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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harassed Subscription Department took on the huge job of setting up and maintaining an alphabetical, as well as a geographical file for our military subscribers. That way, presumably, we could find their addresses whether they were on duty in this country or overseas, en route, or back home...
...another heaving expanse of ocean the heavy cruiser Portland, en route from Le Havre with 1,159 troops, had two of her G.I. passengers killed by a giant wave which crashed through a hangar door, a third washed overboard, and 52 injured, 22 of them so badly that they were put ashore to be flown home...
Both U.S. and Chinese counter-intelligence were aware of the fifth column. Said Lieut. General Tang En-po, National Government commander in the Shanghai area...
Heart Trouble. In San Francisco, Elizabeth Hutchison was reported en route to Perth, western Australia, to marry Robert Littleton, 73, who first proposed 40 years ago. In Camden, N.J., Hugh Watson, 63, sued for divorce after one month of marriage, 43 years of separation...
Republican Representative Bertrand W. Gearhart caused a slight flurry when he told newsmen that the cruiser Boise, en route to Manila from Pearl Harbor, had sighted a Jap task force but had not communicated its news because the skipper had been told to observe radio silence-and saw no reason for breaking the orders...