Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coupled with the admission that this "practically cuts the island off from shipping commerce." (In normal times, .shipping averaged four times as much.) Most help came from the Agricultural Marketing Administration, which was establishing food stockpiles on various Caribbean islands and helping to further a hop-skip-and-jump transportation route which makes use of schooners between the islands. But even some of the schooners, which can make the runs between the islands in daylight, had been machine-gunned by subs. And AMA had made fantastic and grievous mistakes: it sent 3,000 bags of sugar to Puerto Rico (where...
...calibers were hosing tracers into them and there was a helluva din. First thing I felt was an awful jolt on the control column. One of those German boys had plunked two cannon shells into the elevators and punched holes in the fabric big enough for a man to jump through. From then on the captain and I had to brace our feet against the column. That old ship wanted only to climb but we wanted to get down as fast as we could...
...Three years ago Cardinal Hlond fled from Poland one jump ahead of the Germans and took refuge in Rome. When Italy entered the war, he hastened to Lourdes in Unoccupied France. There he became a virtual prisoner; under German pressure Vichy refused to let him go. But when the Nazis swallowed Vichyfrahce last fortnight, Cardinal Hlond fled over the Pyrenees to Spain...
George Dillon will be one of the forwards at the opening jump-off with Dean Hennessey, '45 star, probably at the other forward post. Close behind them and pretty sure of substitution early in the game are Tom Axon and Frank Bixler...
...prayer and a life jacket are just about all there is to rely on when a torpedoed seaman takes the big jump from his sinking ship. Kapok-the silky, white, feather-soft down from the pods of the kapok tree-is the buoyant filling of most life jackets, many life rafts and lifeboat airtight compartments. It can support up to 35 times its own weight. In peacetime, kapok's biggest use was in mattresses, upholstery padding and the like. Most (and the best) kapok came from Java. The Japs put a stop to that. Now, as demand soars, rigidly...