Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early last week Halifax officers of the U.S. War Shipping Administration decided to try to save what cargo was still aboard and recover what had been removed. Newspaper advertisements asked salvagers to bring in their "take," accept U.S. cash awards. Salvaging firms and stevedoring companies went to work...
...done. Hearst's imperious orders to his papers ("The Chief says") were sometimes set aside by General Manager Joseph Vincent Connolly. Trustee Clarence J. Shearn, a dry little Manhattan lawyer with complete control of Hearst finances, restricted the Chief to a paltry $100,000-a-year salary. To save what was left, Shearn sold, consolidated or killed papers, and started selling off big chunks of Hearst's enormous collection of artistic junk (bought for $35 million, worth perhaps $15 million...
Luzon at Last. It was Tuesday, Jan. 9, when Barbey's landing craft nosed in to the beach extending south from San Fabian. Assault troops streamed ashore in full daylight, direct from LCIs, with no opposition save enemy mortar fire. Wilkinson's group, following Barbey's into the gulf and staking out the southernmost beach west to Lingayen, met no enemy fire, but heavy surf breaking far out complicated the task of landing heavy equipment...
Against the Elements. How 84 men, or any men, lived in those waters is difficult to say. Most hung grimly to life rafts, watching their comrades washed off and under, powerless to save them...
...soldier billet where they were forced to service the troops. One man-the speaker's brother-in-law-hid his two daughters in the cellar and covered them over with blankets. When the Germans tore him out of the cellar, he called out to his daughters, 'Save yourselves!' and the daughters ran out. The Germans shot him dead in cold blood outside the church. We saw the two daughters. One was about 16, the other about 14, and they spoke with animated excitement in curiously high-school French that didn't change tone or pitch when...