Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the shroud of fog the four men paddled quietly towards shore. The submarine which had brought them turned its nose again to the open sea, vanished into the Atlantic...
...almost completed, have been made over into flattops. Some of these carriers will probably be Lend-Leased to Britain, but that most must be kept by the U.S. is obvious to anyone who can do long division: an average carrier has 80 planes, 120 pilots, with 100% replacements on shore. Divide the 30,000 pilots the Navy wants in 1942 by 240 and, even allowing for land-based planes and planes on other fighting ships it looks as if someone must dig up a lot of carriers from somewhere...
Orphans of the Storm. The new State Guards have been orphans of the emergency, without central organization, without training, often without guns or even uniforms. Yet even experts agree that a home guard has a real function. A modern enemy attacking a coast lands not only on the shore, but far inland. Defense must be in a depth, not of 30 or 40 miles, but of 200 or perhaps 400. To protect the whole area with an army is prohibitively expensive in men and materiel. Only a civilian force of guerrillas naturally spread throughout the area, can take the sting...
...roofed-over summer series, in the huge, airy Public Auditorium; Philadelphia's warm-weather nights of symphonic music in willow-fringed Robin Hood Dell. Others were still several weeks ahead: the Chicago Symphony's six-week season in rustic Ravinia on Chicago's North Shore; Chicago's free Grant Park concerts (for which the Chicago Federation of Musicians is putting up $48,000); Detroit's Belle Isle nights of music; Boston's Esplanade concerts, following the springtime "Pops"; summer music at the fusty, 69-year-old Chautauqua (N.Y.) assembly; others in many...
Died. Arthur Pryor, 71, veteran bandmaster, once-famed trombonist, composer of some 300 marches, operettas, "novelties" (The Whistler & His Dog, Jingaboo, On Jersey Shore); of a stroke; in West Long Branch, N.J. A boy musician, he played an estimated 10,000 solos with Sousa's Band, took over his late father's band, became Sousa's closest competitor...