Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...penny, Lincoln or Indian, with salt or without, is only one-fifth of a nickel, no matter who your section man was in Ec A. And when unscrupulous people inject a penny into an unsuspecting pay phone, with salt or without (although the salt, experts will tell you, is indispensable) that means the stockholders, about a million of them in this case, are out $.04, or a net loss of return on investment of 80%. And you can't run a business with that kind of a loss, whether you've been retooled by the Busy School...
Married. Writer Kay Boyle (The First Lover, My Next Bride), 40; and Private Joseph Maria Franckenstein, 32; she for the third time, he for the first; five days after she divorced Writer Laurence Vail; in Salt Lake City...
Under Zacharias the Salt Lake City took part in the first offensive U.S. action of the war by shelling Wotje in the Marshalls. Three weeks later old Swayback poured avenging hell into Wake, then went on to Marcus Island, only 1,000 miles from Tokyo, to protect a carrier whose planes set the Japs to jittering in their own backyard...
Moment of Glory. But the Salt Lake City rose to her most heroic moment for a new skipper, Captain Ernest G. ("Shorty") Small, on the night of Oct. 11-12. That night she was hunting destroyers which had been reinforcing the Japs on Guadalcanal. She found more: six cruisers, six destroyers, a transport and auxiliaries. First, her ten guns set a light cruiser ablazing. Twenty rounds from her crack batteries were enough to finish a heavy cruiser, blowing up its entire midsection. Other U.S. warcraft and the Salt Lake City joined fire to sink one of the auxiliaries. Then...
...that time the light cruiser Boise had been badly hit by a Jap heavy cruiser; she was in flames. Shorty Small did not hesitate. He sailed the Salt Lake City in front of the Boise, though it meant silhouetting the old lady against the Boise's flaming wreckage. The Salt Lake City's first salvo silenced the Jap. Four more salvos of 8-in. shells sank the enemy ship. The Boise was saved. Old Swayback proudly escorted her from the battle area...