Word: slots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another sheriff, Walter Clark of Broward County, admitted that most of his income came from a one-third interest in a firm which engaged in a numbers game and held federal licenses for pinball and slot machines. But, he piously protested, he always thought it handled only jukeboxes and cigarette-vending machines...
Gradually the green crew improved its shooting. Affectionately they tagged the Juneau "the galloping ghost of the Korean coast." Officers who remembered the Solomons campaign spoke of the beat between southern Japan and Korea as "The Little Slot." Said a junior officer: "This is the only way to fight war for me, fat and happy, waiting for it to come to you. Good chow, showers and clean bunk." Rear Admiral John Higgins, whose flag is in the Juneau, smiled happily. This was what the Navy called esprit de corps. The Juneau headed back to her base in Japan...
...knife-edge khaki stood at ramrod attention as the Juneau's band blared a salute. Then, as the sun slowly set into purple clouds and dark green mountains, the ship seemed to relax. A cool evening breeze played across her bow and she headed back for "The Little Slot...
...Launched at Kearny, N.J. in 1945 and named after the famed, ill-fated 6,000-ton cruiser Juneau, which was blown up by a Jap torpedo on Nov. 14, 1942 at the southern end of "The Slot," the strip of water running northwest-southeast through the Solomon Islands. All but ten of the Juneau's crew were lost, including the five Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, Iowa...
...sophomore, Gifford has held his post only one season but has handled it with unusual competence. Last year the lithe, blond, 177-pound oarsman rowed at the seven slot in the undefeated '52 freshman boat...