Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gamblers. The reports for the first time gave eye-popping details of the Jap attack. On Nov. 27-28, a Jap task force, carefully and particularly trained for its mission, set sail from Tankan Bay in northern Japan and headed east, in radio silence. Its orders were to sink any vessel it should meet, even Japanese; nothing must be left to a chance betrayal of its course. In the force were six carriers carrying (said the Board) some 424 planes,*two battleships, three cruisers and a destroyer division...
Stark had failed to give Kimmel all the information at hand on Jap intentions. Stark had even written Kimmel (in a personal letter) on Oct. 17: "I do not believe the Japs are going to sail into us." Stark's messages had "directed Kirnmel's attention toward the Far East" as the most probable Jap target if they should attack, rather than toward Hawaii; this was the conviction also generally held in Washington...
Last week UNRRA was busy fulfilling its half of the bargain. As 100 more Dunker volunteers set sail for Europe, six fat Dunker Brown Swiss bulls were safe in Greece, 150 Dunker heifers awaited passage to Poland. Said pleased Pacifist Bushong: "Perhaps shootin' isn't the only way out of this world mess...
...cure for inflation is no mystery either. It is goods-plenty of them. The Foreign Economic Administration has started to give the cure. From a West Coast port, a ship loaded with food, clothing and medicine left for the Islands, the first cargo of private consumers' goods to sail since the liberation...
...meals a day, had slept on tables and . floors. Said Airman Bert Filliter of Moncton, who had spent three years in a German prison camp: "We were prisoners of war, but they shoved us into this like fish." The returning soldiers reported that 100 men had refused to sail on the Pasteur because of conditions...