Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observers, long expecting this move, saw its beginning last week in Illinois, where three Lewis sub-chieftains suddenly withdrew from the State's federation of C.I.O. unions. One of them was Ray Edmundson, C.I.O. regional director, who declared: "Hereafter I shall devote every ounce of energy at my command [to] . . . Lewis, whom I consider one of the greatest labor leaders of all time...
...subs prowled daringly. One crew, drifting in a lifeboat, told of being followed for five days by a submarine, which surfaced at night and set off rocket signals to other U-boats. The castaways knew why they were being followed: the sub wanted to nail the ship that rescued them. They made no signal for help until the submarine began to lag behind. Then they hailed a passing freighter, which picked them up and made a getaway...
Another sinking proved to the Navy's satisfaction that fifth columnists ashore were keeping in touch with U-boat crews. After the sinking of their small merchant ship; two crew members were picked up by a submarine, later released. The sailors found that the sub's commander knew about their port of departure, cargo and destination...
...most notable individual submarine foe was tight-lipped Donald Francis Mason, 28-year-old Navy enlisted pilot, who two months ago sent the now-famed message: "Sighted sub, sank same" (TIME...
...first group of Chinese pilots to be trained in the U.S. were ready for graduation. Now, after some 20 weeks of intensive instruction under U.S. officers, they would return to China as sub-lieutenants in the Chinese Air Force...