Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is on the lips of every Tommy-"We don't get enough bleeding pay." As Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arnold Wilson M. P. recently pointed out "army pay in every rank is lower than in the navy or in the air force." The general theory is that a sailor deserves more because he is forced to leave his sweethearts for long periods, an air force man because he is constantly in danger. Coupled with this, sailors and air force men find it easier to make a hit with the girls. So new applicants for the army are not only...
...convicts objecting to favoritism in the arrangement of prison jobs. That causes unfavorable publicity and Jameson's policies are criticized by the prison board. He wins a tentative endorsement of his method of selecting men for work on the road gang but is faced with dismissal when Sailor (Joseph Sawyer) and Kennedy, with the help of Sailor's moll and an old Lincoln touring car, jump the road gang, kidnapping Druggin. What follows is the year's most exciting cops and convicts chase, involving the usual race with a freight train for road crossings, two sensational...
...last week two unidentified submarines, presumably Rightist Spanish, German or Italian, opened fire on the Leftist freighter Andutz-Mendi, set it ablaze. Up the mast scrambled a sailor to hoist his shirt as a flag of surrender, had his head blown off by a freakish hit of one of the submarine's projectiles. Freakish too was the escape of the Rightist sea-raiding cruiser Almirante Cervera. She was caught by a Leftist air squadron which rained some 20 bombs, some so close that spray from their splashes spattered her decks, but zig-zagging frantically she opened up with...
...live in St. Louis. Thereafter seamen on the world's oceans knew him variously as Curly, Blondy, Highpockets, Spar, Slim and Horseshoes. He got the name Horseshoes from being a scientist with the dice, and he learned to be a scientist from his pal Limo, the Liverpool sailor who jumped ship with him the first time in Vera Cruz. "This Limo wasn't very tall, but he was quite active and strong and full of hell when ashore. One of his front teeth was gone and there was something like a little brad nail came down from...
...Henry Howard, socialite matron of Newport, R. I., and a good sailor, was happy last week in the knowledge that many an American sailor would be thumbing a pocket-sized blue book compiled under her direction, would be a wiser-sailor for having done so. The book is the sixth edition of The Seamen's Handbook for Shore Leave, distributed free to men in the American Merchant Marine and costing 50? to other interested parties. It lists 440 world ports with brief facts about their cheaper hotels, venereal clinics, dentists, laundries, amusements, and a valuable department called Caution. Samples...