Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although you can factually disprove the contentions that Merchant Seamen were overpaid, it is much harder to gather facts about slacking, draft-dodging and the other uglier vices attributed to war-time sailors. The full story is that staying "shore-side" meant immediate drafting, which, for good or bad, is never mentioned in the current charges. Further, the purely civilian status so prized by merchant seamen passed with other myths as a ship left the pier for deep waters. At sea, in convoy or out, all men were subject to certain articles of war, articles that cover union...
...next day communication was re-established with the Hannah Szenesh, which had run into engine trouble just off the territorial water. She would try once more tonight. The operation was set up again and again they waited. This time the boat did come, but as she neared the shore she ran afoul of some rocks and was unable to come any closer. She began to heavy. To unload these men, women and children by small boats would take too much time. The ship was in danger of capsizing and it was late. A scheme was hit upon. Ropes were thrown...
...most maps, the name is British Honduras (capital: Belize). Latin American cartographers call it Belice, territorio en disputa. In its hazy history it has been the haunt first of pirates preying on the Spanish Main, later of rumrunners, sometimes of German submarines. On the swampy, 17 4-mile shore live 63,000 Negroes and Indians, a handful of whites. Back of the capital, greasy rivers reach under forests of cedar, mahogany and chicle-bearing sapodilla to Peten, wildest part of Guatemala...
...Star Show (Sun. 3 pm., CBS). Ninety minutes of comedy, music and drama to trumpet coming fall programs; Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra...
...accounts for a product that could be used as a tie-in to promote a lipstick and nail polish called "Ultra Violet," put out by Manhattan's Revlon Products Corp. It had also been worrying over the same sort of thing for Columbia Recording Corp.'s Dinah Shore. Then several of its geniuses remembered the old song. It was a natch. Lyric writers changed the first line to 'Who will buy my ultra violets?" and substituted "fall" for "spring." Dinah Shore recorded it. Admen hastily readied a $100,000 campaign for Dinah which mentioned Revlon...