Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diego's Balboa Park Zoo, there was a quiet shift in emphasis: two horses marked for slaughter now pull a plow in the victory garden. Top billing at San Diego still goes to Ngagi, the slow, silent, 639-lb. gorilla. Ngagi's cage mate, Mbongo (645 lb.), died last year; he now has a lady friend, a mere shrimp named Kenya...
...Lakes has a ball team of major-league caliber. But the service team that looks even better, at least on paper, is the one that wears the blue & grey of the Norfolk Naval Training Station. Last year the Sailors had only one great big-leaguer, Chief Boatswain's Mate Bob Feller (now at sea). This year, besides Rizzuto, McCoy, Dom Di Maggio and Padgett, the line-up includes two up-&-coming youngsters: First Baseman Eddie Robinson, onetime Baltimore Oriole, and Catcher Vince Smith, a fledgling Pirate who handled Feller's pitching last year. To replace Feller, the Sailors...
...textile industry's estimates of 1943 needs for all these essentials, run up to 9 billion yd. That would leave U.S. civilians only about five billion yd. (v. a civilian 8.9 billion yd. last year). Even this esti mate includes the entire carryover, assumes that production stays at peak besides...
...Chicago Daily News's George Weller for a story about an appendectomy performed by a pharmacist's mate in a submerged submarine...
Back up your case books in your old civvy bag and get set to move . . . next door to McCulloch, Mellon, or Glass Hall. We'll be amoverin' before the end of this month to make room for the next class of middies. You can probably keep your old room-mate, however, if you still want the guy, but be prepared to be a little more cozy (spelled crowded) than before...