Word: quonsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plight of the Occupation. Most American occupation families live in run-down Quonset communities that look like hobo camps. A few officers are quartered in small concrete houses (built with materials brought in from the U.S., at a cost of $40,000 apiece). The rest of Okinawa's garrison live in hovels. Complained one young officer: "You get tired after a while of nailing the same piece of tin onto your house, watching it blow off in the typhoon, and then nailing it back." It will take an estimated three years of building, and at least $75 million, before...
...maneuver was one more small piece in the growing pattern of joint defense. Both Washington and Ottawa want a pool of officers and men who know how both services work. Recently Canada's Naval Air Group 18 finished an intensive three-month course at Quonset Point, R.I. With U.S. pilots, they concentrated on detecting and bombing schnorkel submarines. This month, the Canadian destroyer Halda spent two weeks training in Chesapeake Bay, then sailed with a U.S. Navy amphibious force for a practice assault on the coast of Labrador...
...this doesn't make for much opportunity for Jolson to sing. Eventually, however, World War II intervenes, and he volunteers to entertain the armed forces. There are scenes of Jolson singing "Four Leaf Clover" in an Aleutian quonset hut and "Chinatown" under Tunisian palms; at length, he collapses with fever, and is flown home, where he falls in love with his nurse, (Barbara Hale...
Prison Without Bars. From remote Cambridge Bay last week came an account of the trial. It took place in a Quonset hut normally used for recreation. To the black-robed judge (who sat under a movie screen), the black-robed lawyers (who sat at a ping-pong table) and the parka-clad jury, Eeriykoot and Ishakak again explained how Nukashook had died. The defense argued that assisted suicide was merely part of the Eskimo's way of trying to "match his harsh environment." But the judge said the excuse was unacceptable. Eeriykoot was found guilty; Ishakak was acquitted...
...years as a practising architect the new "pater" left his drawing board for the ministry, now has 15 bustling years in Midwestern parishes behind him. In the last eight years he has swelled his Madison, Wis. congregation from 600 to 1,500, housed the overflow in a streamlined Quonset-type chapel which he helped to design. When Kent trustees began looking for a "live-wire with a soul" to head Kent last spring, they lit on John Patterson as their man, persuaded him to exchange his varied duties as parish rector for the narrower duties of head of a tight...