Word: petersburgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside historic Petersburg some 800 hog-dirty, dog-tired soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 8th Quartermaster Training Regiment were sleeping soundly. A soft north-northeast breeze fanned the damp air; the lonely flashlight of a patrolling officer threaded the dark Virginia night; somewhere a mongrel pup howled plaintively. Suddenly came the long, heart-chilling shriek of dive-bombers, the rattle of machine guns, the dull, stomach-curdling thud of high explosives. Over the camp rolled clouds of black, evil-smelling smoke. Up went a cry: "Gas! Gas! Gaaaasss!" Out of their tiny olive-green tents tumbled soldiers, stuffing heads into...
...training centers of the Commission dot the seaboard on both coasts. At St. Petersburg, Fla., Hoffman Island, N.Y., Port Hueneme, Calif., are schools for apprentices, aged between 18 and 23, where would-be mariners do a seven-month hitch learning the rudiments of their trade. Students are paid $21 a month. Experienced able-bodied seamen and oilers get paid $72.50 to $82.50 a month while brushing up on their knowledge. In charge of all training is the U.S. Coast Guard...
Student. In Petersburg, Ind., a farmer found why his electricity bills were so high: one of his cows had been pulling on the light cord in the barn at night...
...Where in 1904 the Japanese assaulted the Russian fleet while their Ambassador danced at the Tsar's ball in St. Petersburg...
...sales letter to a prospect in Petersburg, Va., in which a wainwright offered a two-horse omnibus, with seats for 14 and an advertisement printed on the outside, for $550, with brakes $20 extra...