Word: rafting
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Seven unhappy shipyard workers huddled on a raft near Portland, Ore., tired, hungry and cold. They were down to two days' chocolate rations. Within yoo-hoo distance floated the Coast Guard, sternly refusing them food, blankets, sympathy...
...seven had vowed to live on shipwreck rations until Oregon made its $104 million war-bond quota. But Oregon stuck fast at 62%, with $40 million to go. The raft-sitters got no pity. Small boys on the river bank tauntingly waved hot dogs and ice-cream cones at them. Older folks heckled: "Why aren't you fellows at work?" Said one morose raft-sitter: "We'll stay here till Hell freezes over if it helps sell bonds. But if not, we want to know. We're sure ready...
Casting suave Cary Grant, who is accustomed to taming his women by his eyebrows and delicate hands, in the part of an illiterate, rough, George Raft type, to play opposite a woman with no more polish than Lorraine Day is the biggest mistake of the picture, unless it was the initial decision to produce the movie. It just goes to prove that you can't toss a good comedian like Cary Grant into any rickety old vehicle and trust him to make it go. Lorraine Day is still the sweet-simple young things she was in the Kildare serials...
...Louis had command of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla. Twice his flagship, the Kelly, was badly crippled. In May 1941 he took her into the hell of Crete. That time the Kelly was finished off and the King's handsome second cousin was lucky to escape on a life raft. Noel Coward made a movie based on the Kelly's exploit: In Which We Serve...
...Examples: Eddie Rickenbacker (Seven Came Through); and his Pacific raft companions, James C. Whittaker (We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing) and Johnny Bartek (Life Out There...