Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First on the beach was Lieut. Wilfred S. Le-François of Watertown, N.Y., with his assault detachment. He and his men had 20 quiet minutes on the island, while rain beat their faces and they edged through the tall palms. Then the Japs discovered them and let loose with a machine gun. Five bullets bore into Lieut. Le-François' left shoulder. He and his men returned the fire and went...
Clark Gable was made a corporal on entering the Army Air Forces School in Miami Beach. The nation's newspapers headlined the forced removal of his eight-year-old mustache...
Crooner Rudy Vallée, who sneaked into the Navy for three months when he was 15, joined the Coast Guard in Long Beach as a bandmaster with a chief petty officer's rank...
...Army occupies 212 U.S. hotels, a total of 30,000-odd rooms, 2% of all American hotel rooms. Its biggest hotel patronage is coastal: 150 hotels at Miami Beach, 29 at Atlantic City. Its biggest single concentration: in Chicago's 3,000-room Stevens (world's biggest hotel). More will be occupied...
...blacklisted Capitalist Axel Wenner-Gren until February 1942, when the Duke took it away from him. Worth over $1,000,000, it has an up-to-the-minute quick-freeze plant and cannery, a fleet of power-driven fishing boats, is only 60 miles' shipping distance from Palm Beach. General Foods will start operations with 300 native workers in the plant, 1,000 more as supply fishermen. Main catch will be rock lobster (crawfish); later the company will go after pompano, grouper, snapper, other tasty tropical fish. If all goes well, the plant may be expanded, more natives...