Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maze of steel rails that stretches for miles along the New Jersey shore across from Manhattan, 8,000 loaded boxcars stood idle last week, waiting for their war freight to be moved to ships. The blight of manpower shortage had moved from New Jersey's tomato canning (TIME, Aug. 30) to an even more critical field...
...days of such newspaper appeals brought impressive results: 2,000 volunteers in 48 hours, including 100 Princeton University students, scores of husky lads from the athletic leagues sponsored by New Jersey police departments, three sailors on shore leave. Perhaps Major Lepper had found the magic formula for recruiting workers. Said the New York Sun: "There's something about a request for male brawn that can't be swept aside. It's like trying to walk by those muscle-testing machines at the fair...
...Baldwin 30 and Chamberlain man. In 1938, supporting Munich, he said: Britain should be "big enough to be above a mud-slinging match." In Bermuda nighttime Hamilton will be a sight for Lord Burghley to see. Its blacked-out, coral streets are packed with residents, visitors, soldiers. & sailors on shore leave. There is practically no civilian automobile traffic, and crowds too big for the sidewalks mill into the streets. Hotspots serve weak drinks at stiff prices...
These and other incidents were recounted last week by the Army Air Forces Anti-Submarine Command, which has been operating in land-based Liberators as far as 1,000 miles from shore. It was the most illuminating report the U.S. has yet had of the part which the Army has played, and is still playing, in breaking the back of the U-boat campaign. In 13 battles which the Army saw fit to reveal, the Army's cautious claims (Isley's attack was listed as "probable damage") were five subs sunk, five damaged, three chased away from nearby...
Hunker, who stamped himself as the man to beat when he vanquished Jack Benn, favorite at the start, lost the first set of his semi-final match before rallying to beat F.M. Shore, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. Hunker is an officer in the Naval Supply Corps School here, and came into the semi-finals after a three-set match with John Zinsser...