Word: rattlebox
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Broadcasting's John McVane, the New York Sun's Gault MacGowan. MacGowan, a veteran roving reporter and soldier of fortune, had the unluckiest tale, got it through to the Sun, a day late, only after a long struggle with censors. Shipped, against his will, in an old rattlebox of a ship named only with the number 13, he discovered too late that she was merely a transport for reserve tanks. He sat fuming offshore while his fellow correspondents moved up to grandstand seats, consoled himself by drinking brandy with the ship's doctor...
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