Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the censors would not let him reveal her real name. Because she never got hit hard enough to be sent home for repairs, she never got much publicity. But many a high-ranking Navy man was willing to concede by last week that on performance the Salt Lake City was the No. 1 U.S. cruiser...
...Salt Lake City has probably been in more engagements than any other warship. Jap communiques have "sunk" her twice and left her burning once. They must have known better, for no sailorman could fail to identify her at a glance...
...Pacific last week Swayback was still serving. Among her honors she counted last year's red "E" (for first in engineering performance among the heavy cruisers of the Pacific Fleet), a tribute to her longtime chief engineer, Commander Theodore Kobey of Bisbee, Ariz. The morale of the Salt Lake City's 1,000-man crew has been called the best in the Fleet...
Moment of Sentiment. For tall, trim Captain Ellis Zacharias, as he left her for Washington after five combat actions to become Assistant Chief of Naval Intelligence, the crew of the Salt Lake City had a handsome testimonial. Their scroll recalled old Swayback's great fighting career, the raid on the Marshalls, the attack on Jap-held Wake, the days & nights at "general quarters" when the enemy was hammering at them with bomb and torpedo. "We say farewell to you with a deep sense of personal loss," it concluded...
Civilians must have 79.1% of 1941's toothbrushes-but only 35.1% of dentifrices (salt and bicarbonate of soda, said Joe Weiner, are just-as-good substitutes). They could do with 58.3% of packaged medicines but not without 107.2% of sanitary napkins ("with women entering industry to a greater extent, it is not possible to revert to improvised methods and materials"). They required no paper facial tissues but 92.1% of toilet paper. (The report said its use "has increased considerably since...