Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winced, the left-of-left C.M.U. pointed out that its able and ordinary seamen were working some 60 hours a week and trying to support families on an average monthly wage of $138. Despite bunk and board while working, this was far below the average wage of most U.S. shore workers...
Unlovable Evan L. Evans-who always wore a dirty straw hat and a bandanna, even when he drove in one of his Rolls-Royces-is the principal monster in Frederic Wakeman's sharp, comical novel about the monstrousness of present-day radio advertising. (Author Wakeman, whose first novel, Shore Leave, has averaged a comfortable thousand-a-week sale since 1944, used to write radio commercials for Campbell's Soup, Lucky Strike...
...Dinah Shore, by General Foods...
...fact, he was kidnaped. While Chicago's press whooped with an enthusiasm mislaid since the Capone era, brother George Jones flew in from Mexico to round up a reported $250,000 in ransom money. Automatically, city officials began another cleanup of unprotected policy peddlers. From the North Shore to Bronzeville, the Negro heartland, the kidnaping was poolroom talk...
...ship itself needed no radar or other special equipment. When the pilot climbed aboard outside the harbor, he carried a small portable radiotelephone. Over it, he hailed the shrouded shore. The nearest radar operator, watching through his "scope," told precisely where the ship was, and what it had better do next...