Word: sal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sal Costa...
Those nominated thus far are as follows: Luis Amescua, David Barnhouse, Norman Brooks, Sal Costa, Bernard Edison, Hartley Fleishman, John Greene, Alan Heimert, John B. Jones, Lawrence Klepper, Townsend J. Knight, Benjamin H. Lacy...
Socialism invaded the Empire. Mustached, square-shouldered Frederick John Burrows, onetime railway porter, World War I sergeant major and 1942-44 president of Britain's railwaymen, was appointed Governor of Bengal. Burrows' sal ary jumps from $832 as a railway checker to $36,000 a year, and up to $176,040 in allowances. He leaves his six-room Herefordshire cottage for a palace in Calcutta. He and his wife took the news in stride. Said Dora Beatrice Burrows: "We shan't be any different. We are working people and always will...
...while away the long sea hours, Commodore Richard Valentine Morris brought along his wife, baby, and Negro maid Sal; to keep his crew happy, he let them bring their wives too. This domestically blissful squadron cruised leisurely about the Mediterranean, then settled down to a blockade of Tripoli. During the siege a seaman's wife on the flagship Chesapeake bore a child in the forecastle. When the Commodore's wife began expecting, Morris lifted the blockade and sailed off to Malta so that she could be delivered in style...
...Guinea crud" or "the creeping crud" are U.S. servicemen's names for any & every kind of tropical skin disease. Doctors often find the nicknames convenient, since diagnosis is not always easy and many varieties respond to standard treatment: cleaning, painting with silver nitrate and other chemicals, dressing with sal-sulfur ointment, avoidance of sweating, return to the temperate zone. The various kinds of jungle rot were described by Lieut. Commander Robert R. M. McLaughlin in the Naval Medical Bulletin last week. Some of them...