Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...married Prospector Ernest Martin, later a partner of Sir Harry Oakes who was murdered in the Bahamas last year. Together the Martins wielded pick & shovel in bitter cold weather to make their properties produce. The properties obliged nobly. At one time th? Martins owned 90,000 shares of Lake Shore mining company stock-$50 a share. Mary Martin, 69, and weather-beaten, died in Oakville, Ont. last December. Last week her will, filed for probate, disclosed that she left $71,700 in real estate, $17,686 in mortgages, $28,138 in jewels, $320,773 in stocks, $568,768 in cash...
...organized the Fifth District Shore Patrol, first separate, permanent unit of its kind, gave the new outfit blanket orders to clean up-fast. That is what the Patrol...
...Shore Patrol's efficiency is not Navy-bred. It was brought in with 300 tough, intelligent, hand-picked policemen, including four attorneys, Maryland's former hangman, New York patrolmen, detectives and constables, and highway cops from eastern and southern states. Fifteen of the 25 members of the Negro division are college graduates...
...Untamed. Ingoldsby, now a lieutenant commander, began his work as a lieutenant, ran smack into the stone wall of deep-sea tradition. Seafaring commanders balked at giving up their time-honored shore authority over their own crews. Enlisted sailors, used to the comradely patrols from their own ships, balked too. It took an order from Navy Secretary Frank Knox to give Ingoldsby and his crew real authority. Then Ingoldsby went to work, got his unit going in a matter of days...
Into Montevideo harbor last week steamed the U.S. light cruiser Memphis, the destroyer leader Somers and the destroyer escort Christopher - all commanded by gruff, hearty, barrel-chested Vice-Admiral Jonas Howard Ingram. U.S. sailors swarmed ashore, paraded with Uruguayan sailors, enjoyed the "best shore leave we've had." U.S. bombers flew down from Brazil, established a base in Uruguay, roared over the La Plata estuary almost within hearing of Buenos Aires and its Colonels Government in Argentina...