Word: sos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army procurement regulations were 1,500 pages long, weighed 18 lb. Then Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, chief of SOS, came along. He got Colonel Albert J. Browning, who once resigned from SPAB because he could not stand red tape, to boil the regulations down. New size: 100 pages, one pound...
...Heavy seas frosted his binoculars, rendered them useless. But he kept to the watch. Said he: "I seen this object with my naked eye. It looked like a yaller box, maybe three miles off." The bridge could not see it, pooh-poohed his warning until a ruby-red SOS light appeared. "It" was an orange life raft from a torpedoed ship. Six survivors, one of them already prostrate from exhaustion, were picked up. Commended by the Third Naval District's Rear Admiral Adolphus An drews for his uncanny eyesight, bashful, young (18) Bill Lowans had to admit that...
...Pearl Harbor Navy Chaplain (TIME, Feb. 2) who cracked, "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, I just got one of the" so and sos, was infused with the same spirit of the Christ (Matthew XXI: 12, 13) as He overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and also cracked, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves...
Because of these findings the National Education Association last week sent an SOS to school boards throughout the land, urged them to up teachers' pay. Said N.E.A.: "The longtime battle for democracy will be won in the schools. ... It is of utmost importance to the American way of life that we do not weaken our longtime defense . . . [as] was done...
...first 36 hours of war, no actual sinkings of U.S. merchant ships were reported; though at least one SOS call was heard (700 miles from San Francisco) and some ships have undoubtedly been sunk. Insurance rates on U.S. vessels zoomed; the war risk rate to the Hawaiian Islands was 5? per $100 last week, $4 at this week's beginning...