Word: messroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maine Paper Manufacturer Hugh J. Chisholm. President Truman will have two double staterooms on the boat deck. One will have gold draperies, oyster-white leather chairs, blue walls; the other will be done in beige and green. There will be peach carpeting in the lounge, beige in the messroom. The presidential "head" will include a bathtub; guest staterooms will have showers. On the fantail Harry Truman and guests can relax under awnings, in lounge chairs. He will be free to give her any name he chooses, but the Navy thinks Williamsburg a "nice Colonial name" and hopes it will stick...
First in a Quarter-Century. Last week the Great Lakes Naval Training Station graduated its first Negro gobs for World War II. Not since 1922 had the Navy taken in any Negroes. For Negroes, routine duty between wars had been in the messroom. But now well over a thousand have arrived at Great Lakes for their eight weeks of basic training. Other thousands are to follow...
...extraordinary tradition in the Serb Army is for cadets to shut themselves in their messroom, turn out the lights, draw revolvers, and shoot it out. Dusan Simovitch, who passed this test of courage with flying colors, must have felt in much the same position last week. Now he hoped- as did the Greeks and British to the east-to prove that the point at which Blitzkrieg can fail in mountainous country is the second phase: consolidation...