Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bracketed, the PT weaved desperately to escape, then came to a grinding halt on the cruel edge of a coral reef which held the thin mahogany plywood hull like a bear trap. Jap fire was creeping closer. The youthful skipper ordered men to destroy secret devices and papers, gave the word to abandon ship. One enlisted man was killed on deck; the others swam through shark-infested waters to safety aboard another U.S. vessel...
Then destroyers and transports slid into Blanche Channel (between Rendova and New Georgia). Just before a stormy dawn, the transports hove to off Rendova. Landing barges snaked their way swiftly through a reef-jagged channel and ashore. Above loomed the jungle-robed, broken crater of Rendova Peak...
Knox knew it was time to reef. In a carefully worded statement issued by the Navy, he gulped his previous words, took a new tack: "There is no great difference in the Navy and the committee figures for 1942, the net loss in gross tons being in the neighborhood of something over a million tons...
Toward The Rocks. The biggest reef ahead was John L. Lewis. This week his 500,000 bituminous miners began negotiations for their $2-a-day wage increase-which is far & away beyond the 15%-raise yardstick. The shaky aircraft decision was plain warning to John Lewis of what his miners may expect. Last week, Lewis said...
Smoke billowed out from the Jap's hatches. Lashed by the New Zealander's gunfire, the sub limped towards shore. Off Cape Esperance it suddenly went down at the stern. Said the New Zealand skipper: "There she rested on a reef, and she's still there with 30 or 40 feet of her bow in the air pointed towards Tokyo. I ordered the rum broken out for each...