Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...water's edge. There are plenty of piers, cranes, warehouses for handling cargoes; plenty of trained labor. But last week, while other Atlantic ports were chockablock with war supplies, Boston docks and warehouses were empty.* The nation's handiest harbor on the Eastern Seaboard was a ghost port...
...Maritime Commission's offices in Washington, presided over by Rear Admiral Emory Land, poured plans, surveys, orders, contracts. The history of World War I shipping was the effort to revive the ghost of a dead industry. The job this time was on a vaster scale. Six years ago, the U.S. cargo-shipbuilding industry was mackerel-dead; now, on paper anyway, U.S. ships were thick as herrings...
...ghost-like Harvard graduate has remained incognito to all Harvard officials, including Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16, for over a decade. Bingham has corresponded with the unknown, philanthropist through the trust officer of the First National Bank of Boston, but has never learned the name of Harvard's great swimming patron...
Blithe Spirit. Noel Coward's gay farce of how a first wife's mischievous ghost plays hob with a writer's second marriage (TIME...
...with is really his wife. From then on his adulterous activities become husbandly jesting acceptable to the thinnest- lipped moralist. The trouble with the picture now is that it not only fails to offend, but fails to excite. The best fun in seeing it comes from noting where the ghost of its former salacious self, keeps bobbing up between the lines and leering. But wherever Sex has stuck its head across the line into Will Hays's never-never land of tight sweaters and kisses that last more than seventy seconds, the censor's scissors have snipped it off neatly...