Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old ex-seaman named Don Haynes arrived in San Francisco in a strange contrivance-an automobile with the doors welded shut and the windows securely barred. He announced that, living on food passed through the bars, he had been inside for several weeks, was going to stay there (with a bed, a chemical toilet and a collapsible bathtub) for 14 months, thus win the long...
...charge of a new department to handle defense contracts. The contracts rolled in so fast that six months later, when Percy was 21, he was in charge of the major part of Bell & Howell's business. Just before he joined the Navy as a seaman, McNabb made him assistant secretary and a company director...
Mark of Affection. In Long Beach, Calif., Seaman Rudolphus Hill refused to prosecute the jealous lady friend who had laid his scalp open with a beer bottle: he was "happy to know I affect women that...
Born. To Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 22, only child of the 17th Duke, of Alba (Spain's top nobleman and ex-Ambassador to Britain) whose wedding last October cost $300,000' and Don Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazoz 27, blueblooded onetime able seaman in Franco's navy: their first child, a son; in Madrid
...been assigned. He saw row upon row of hot and hideous tin roofs sloping away toward the sea, and a ringing clang came to his ears as a vulture perched heavily on top of the hotel. Down at the quayside, pickaninnies swarmed like little vultures around a newly landed seaman and triumphantly escorted him to the local brothel...