Word: ported
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic-plying Liberty ship makes $82.50 a month base pay (for a 56-hour week) plus board & bunk. Until last weekend his war-risk bonus was at least 100% of his base pay. If the ship entered a danger area, he got an area bonus (about $25), and a port-attack bonus (about $10). Take-home pay of all its members, N.M.U. conservatively said, has averaged $50 weekly...
Most of the 21 damaged ships, repaired at sea, were soon back in action. As the crippled Pittsburgh limped toward port, the radio brought a message from one of the ships: "Have sighted a suburb of Pittsburgh and have taken it in tow." The Pittsburgh's bow went home...
Jack Wallace, star pitcher for several recent Crimson ball clubs, began the summer on the right foot last Saturday by whipping a team from the Boston Port of Embarkation...
...cradled to the blare of bugles, lulled by the thud of marching feet. At the age of six, he first saw India (on the same trip he also took his first look at Egypt). A boy of few words, he noted briefly in his diary: "Went ashore at Port Said." He received a stern classical schooling at Winchester (the twelfth of his line to go there), proceeded comfortably through Sandhurst, then, like his father before him, joined the Black Watch Regiment, in which he was a kilted second lieutenant. As a subaltern he saw the tail-end of the Boer...
...cure for inflation is no mystery either. It is goods-plenty of them. The Foreign Economic Administration has started to give the cure. From a West Coast port, a ship loaded with food, clothing and medicine left for the Islands, the first cargo of private consumers' goods to sail since the liberation...