Word: troopship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ship he wanted was the Ile de France, the French Line's "Rue de la Paix of the Atlantic," winner of the Croix de guerre for service as a troopship during World War II. Stone got her, and last week he was ready to sink...
...Army Commander in Chief in Europe 1956-59-Second Lieut. Lemnitzer married Honesdale's dark-eyed Katherine Tryon just before he was assigned to the first of his two tours (1924-25, 1931-34) with the Coast Artillery batteries on Corregidor. Their honeymoon cruise was made aboard a troopship so crowded that husbands and wives had to travel segregated in five-passenger cabins...
...biggest specialty store with the world's most famed bargain basement. Filene's professional buyers picked up Paris dresses at a song in 1940 just before the Germans marched in, emptied out the seagoing haberdashery aboard the Queen Mary when it was converted to a wartime troopship. Filene's customers got these bargains-plus hip-length hose from the Folies-Bergère and smoke-damaged goods from Dallas' Neiman-Marcus-at cut-rate prices that are automatically trimmed 25% after twelve selling days, 50% after 18, 75% after 24. If unsold after a month...
...forget: 17 years later, onetime Guerrilla Linehan, now 61, is still being deviled by Government bureaucrats. Last week came an ultimatum from Washington: Linehan could either defend himself in court or fork over the $554.89 that he owed the U.S. for his fare from Australia on a U.S.-owned troopship...
...Philippine hills, there are still several hundred Japanese soldiers holding out in isolated misery, unaware that World War II is over. Occasionally one gives up. Not so Seaman Noboru Kinoshita, who escaped from a sinking troopship off the Philippines in 1944. For eleven years, Seaman Kinoshita lived on lizards, frogs, fruit and wild monkeys in the jungles of Luzon awaiting the day when a victorious Japanese navy would come to rescue him. That day never dawned, but last fortnight, as he raided a jungle-side sweet-potato patch, Kinoshita was picked up by Philippine police. "When," he asked, "will...