Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reid, from last year's squad, much fine material is expected from the Freshman class. Other prospects are Dave Arnold, who starred on the Freshman team two years ago, but was unable to ski with the Varsity last year because of an injury; also George Shed and Jerry Porter, both Freshmen, who have had considerable experience. Last year the ski team achieved fourth place among the 10 intercollegiate competitors for the Eastern Ski Championship...
...Cost. Such battles do not come cheaply. The destroyer Porter was lost, other ships damaged. But the real blow came when the Navy announced that another precious, unidentified U.S. aircraft carrier had followed the Lexington, Yorktown and Wasp to a deep grave in the Pacific. Whether she was the Enterprise, the Saratoga, the Ranger or the Hornet was not announced. When the Japs withdrew northward, either in outright retreat or to regroup for another action, Bull Halsey sent his ships to shell the enemy positions on Guadalcanal...
Soon lean, tall, Red Cross Worker Robert Porter, breakfasting in an army mess, heard a noise he had learned to heed in China. He called: "Those are the Japanese." Unbelieving officers scrambled from the mess hall for a look, agreed with Porter only when one officer exclaimed: "They must be Japanese. We haven't got that many bombers...
...this connection we would like to advise that the Liberty vessel, S.S. Jason Lee, launched from the Kaiser Co.'s Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. on June 27, 1942, was christened by Mrs. Walter E. Harris, wife of Walter E. Harris, Negro swing shift porter. . . . HAL BABBITT Publicity Director Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. Portland...
...practical. The book is infinitely detailed, as if Mrs. Harriman, a woman of firm grip and general sensibility, had found over the years that most Americans are fuzzy-minded, bewildered, perhaps even dopey. For instance, she tells how to get a stepladder for an upper berth: "Ring for the porter and he will bring one." How to mind your own business: "If a friend receives a personal telephone call, never attempt to hear what she is talking about...