Word: bak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murphy Workshop. A fold-up workshop for do-it-yourselfers has been put on sale by Dor-Bak Corp., Chicago. Measuring only 18 by 40 by 7 in. when closed, the workshop includes a workbench that supports 300 Ibs., heavy-duty electrical outlets, a peg board for hanging up tools. Price...
...government plunked down $18,000 of hard-won cash to buy a sturdy little 175-ft. patrol craft, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's training ship Ensign Whitehead. A crew of 16 Korean officers was flown to New York to bring her home. They rechristened her the Bak Dusan, studied her vagaries in a two-week orientation course at the academy, painted her white sides a dark battleship grey, and set sail for the Pacific...
...week Korea's little flagship lay at one of Pearl Harbor's huge docks awaiting armament. All over her topsides officers and crewmen, dressed alike in greasy dungarees and broad smiles, were busy sprucing her up. "Almost one year we gave money for this ship," said the Bak Du-san's radio officer, Joung Won Sam. "We needed the money, but we needed this ship worse." His companion, the Bak Du-san's executive officer, nodded enthusiastically. "But we're going to keep up the contributions," he added. "If we get enough money...