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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address at the graduation ceremonics was made by Chaplain George F. Rixey. Deputy Chief of Chaplains. The invocation was delivered by Chaplain (Captain). Charles F. Stack, Jr., and the Benediction was pronounced by Chaplain (Captain) James C. Ryan. Both the latter men are members of the Chaplains School Faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 215 CHAPLAINS ENROLL TODAY AS 21ST CLASS | 2/15/1944 | See Source »

...took one horrified look at the stack of 36 mats and gave the usual Persian answer : 'Impossible!' Then we settled down to negotiations, which involved convincing him that he did have enough metal to cast the pages from the mats (or could get it)-that the casting would not take fifteen days (if he could get the lead out of the pants of the zombie who did the work)-that the only paper available would be usable if not ideal-that we would somehow manage to get him enough gelatin for the press roll ers-and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...boat pack was somewhere around. Off tootled the old (1919) four-stack destroyer Borie, found a sub. Her straining, aged sides shook as her depth charges burst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Scratch the Pigboats | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

Fitness tests have come and gone and some of us were not as fit as we thought we were. We have often wondered just how the faculty officers would stack up on the fitness tests. As it is, the only idea we get of their physical fitness comes from various baseball games...

Author: By J. D. Wilson, | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 9/28/1943 | See Source »

...tanker, Victoria, which was completed in the Albany yard in 1941, sold to Argentina in time to become the first Argentine ship torpedoed in World War II. The Victoria did not sink. She was torpedoed in what was thought to be the engine room, just under the stack, but the stack was a phony. The engine room was somewhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: The Farmer Goes to Sea | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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