Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liner will be no short, champagne ceremony. Next week the newspapermen and Navy guests who watch from the new wooden stands will see only the beginning of the operation. Not for weeks will the Lafayette float upright. Not for months will she be ready to sail again...
Said hustling, optimistic Sidney G. Walton, 42, vice president and secretary of the Matson lines: "We're not trying to keep out competition. We are not interested in it. This is a modernization program. We changed from sail to steam, didn...
...Sweatshop. Of Ottawa itself, Austin Cross wrote: "This is the capital of Canada. . . . Here is democracy at work with an hour and a half off for lunch. . . . This is where they run the war. You find soldiers who can't fight, sailors who can't sail, and flyers...
...read the cover story in last week's TIME, I couldn't help wondering how we ever found out what General Patton wrote in his last letter to his wife-how we knew about the sail boat he has tied up against future leisure (it's called The When and If)-how we knew about his fighting the battles of Manassas and Gettysburg over again on the spot with his young son. More important, I wondered how we knew so intimately just how General Patton felt about the way the fighting had been going in Tunisia...
Movement for Perfection. At some of them, gunners swing fixed shotguns in turrets just like the ones they will use in bombers. At others they fire from a truck going 30 miles an hour around an elliptical track while birds sail past at every angle. In the fourth week, having learned to service machine guns and repair stoppages, they go on to ground machine-gun practice, firing .30s and .50s at targets carried over an irregular, baffling course by mechanically controlled jeeps...