Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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RAYMOND MAZALEWSKI got quite a thrill out of his Hampton Beach sunburn when the corpsman told the new V-12s coming into sick bay that he had been out on a raft in the Atlantic for 10 days. . . the will have to dim those neon lights in the Oxford or more of us will get burnt...
With one packet of the Consolazio-Spealman chemicals, a man in a life raft can produce a quart of drinking water in half an hour. The Navy announced that the device was ready to go into mass production as standard life-raft equipment as soon as it passes final tests by Army & Navy doctors...
...first the destroyer saw nothing more than the flotsam of defeat-empty gasoline cans, a soldier's kitbag floating, part of the landing gear of a German transport plane held up by a bloated balloon tire, a rubber raft on which a dead Nazi airman...
...With Moe Raft, Mike Sachs, and Stinky & Shorty probably peeling potatoes in North Africa, the OH has had to resort to some of the lesser lights of the boards, namely Gawgle Lewis and Max Fuhrman. Those prosaic buffoons assist the 30 glorious girls and 60 people the Old Howard claims it provides subsistence for, in making all kinds physio-dirty...
...raft in the Pacific with Eddie Rickenbacker's shipwrecked airmen, Lieut. James C. Whittaker saw the stirrings of a national movement. "We all saw Johnny reading his Bible, his freckled face solemn as an owl's and the sun glinting on his red hair," he wrote in his new book We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing. "No one kidded...