Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portland, Ore., 1,000 theatergoers waited until 12:30 a.m. for the curtain to go up on Inside U.S.A., starring Beatrice Lillie, after the theatrical company, aboard a train from Los Angeles, was snowbound in the Cascade Mountains. The weary, determined players performed for the weary, determined audience until the final curtain rang down...
...Matter of Seconds. At 7 p.m. His Majesty's Submarine Truculent was headed up the Thames estuary for the Chatham Naval Base, after a diving test cruise in the North Sea. Aboard was her regular complement of six officers, 55 men, plus 18 civilian Navy yard technicians who had been checking up on recent repairs to the Truculent...
...since June 1939, when H.M. Submarine Thetis went down in the Mersey estuary below Liverpool with a loss of 99 lives, had the Royal Navy suffered such a peacetime tragedy. Of the 79 aboard the Truculent only 15 had been saved. Ten bodies were discovered floating in the estuary on Friday. Most of the 54 missing had probably escaped from the sub and had been dragged by the tide...
...then escaped into the nearby pine forest. Dressed in the clothing of French workmen, Peter and John caught the night train to Frankfurt, while their companion, disguised as a traveling salesman, hit out for Danzig. In Stettin Peter and John had no end of trouble trying to stow away aboard a Swedish ship, finally accepted a Danish crew boss's offer to smuggle them into Denmark and hand them over to the Danish underground. Half a dozen harrowing adventures later, they reached the British consulate in Göteborg, Sweden, to learn that their fellow escapee had arrived...
...Duke of Windsor undoubtedly had a bit of explaining to do at home. He had announced in Cherbourg that the Duchess of Windsor had "received several offers" of jobs. When they arrived in Manhattan aboard the Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess said to reporters who interviewed them: "I'm afraid that's just a rumor." Then, with a sidelong glance at the Duke: "I have quite a full-time job now." One of the Duke's first jobs on U.S. soil: escorting his Duchess to a New Year's Eve party at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, where...