Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When mess call blows, we stroll into the mess hall, sit down and eat like pigs. Talk about service-we are waited on by K. P.'s. Dishes of food are on the tables. We'd die if we had to wash our own mess kits. In fact we don't even have mess kits, all we have to do is eat. The plates, hotel china, are washed by cooks in the automatic dishwashers. . . . Honestly one cannot possibly exaggerate the utter comfort we have...
...steadily wrong for two reels, and then Bobby runs true to form by saving the commander, proving the new landing-in-fog invention, and clearing his name of an ugly connection with the commander's wife--all in one breath-taking flight. The only sour note is that they wash out first-line fighting planes faster than we're building them. But Ruth Hussey has played with the one and only Taylor and will have her memories; there were a lot a good angles on diving Grumann lighters to inspire America's youth; and if you get really excited about...
...Roosevelt had an illustration: in shipbuilding Bremerton (Wash.), 2,500 children of newly employed workers have no schools, no local laws authorize new ones to be built. More alarming was the story of Vice President Peter Flynn of C. I. O.'s Industrial Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America. He claimed that many defense workers are turning down overtime work because it costs them so much time and energy to commute to overcrowded cities where they work. He may have been thinking of Bath (Me.) Iron Wofks (destroyers), to which workers are commuting over a 30-60-mile radius...
...Chilean Team Committee will be headed by Eugene Du Bols, of New York City, manager of the U. S. Ski Team in Chile during 1937, as chairman. The other members will be Warren Chivers, of Hanover, N. H.; Donald Fraser, of Denver, Colo.; Peter Hostmark, of Seattle, Wash.; John C. Jay, Jr., of New York City; David Judan, of Otis, Mass.; and Alfred H. Moorhouse, of Boston, Mass...
William B. Ferguson, Walla Walla, Wash...