Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salt Spring Island needed a fire siren which could be had only from the U.S. Dutifully, Volunteer Fire Chief Arthur Elliott filled out U.S. priority forms sent from Ottawa. Just as dutifully, he answered a long series of requests for additional information. Finally he had had enough international red tape. In a letter to Ottawa, Chief Elliott exploded with lyric wrath...
...Salt Spring. Island . . . rests like a gem of beauty in the azure waters of the Pacific Ocean. It has an area of seventy miles . . . two well-equipped beer halls ... a population of 1,800 people, all Godfearing, self-respecting souls [who] pay their taxes promptly. . . . [Its] lambs graze on the carpets of wild violets with which the grazing areas abound, giving a distinctive and delicate flavor to the meat...
...Salt Spring Island got its siren...
...clock that evening a man walked into a lonely, brightly lighted pumping station on the Salt River, two miles from the camp. He wore faded Army fatigue clothes, was drenched with the rain which was falling outside. As George Jackson, the lone man on duty, stared at him, he calmly announced that he was an escaped prisoner. Though he carried a 100-pound pack containing food, cigarets and other supplies, he politely asked for something to eat. He offered no resistance when Jackson reached for the telephone. At almost the same time two more Germans knocked at a farmhouse three...
Died. Rear Admiral Ernest Gregor ("Shorty") Small, 56, modest, soft-spoken onetime commander of the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Salt Lake City, the "one ship fleet'' which sank five Japanese warships, saved the U.S.S. Boise in the Solomon Islands Battle of Cape Esperance; of long illness ; in Manhattan...