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...Patrol Craft Escort: 180-foot convoy guardian, tonnage secret, cost about $1 million. PCEs bear such names as Hell Harvest, Hell for Hirohito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From Drip to Ship | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

Sacramento's Mayor Tom B. Monk, a police escort and howling fans paraded the returning heroes. Schoonover met them with $30,000 in new pledges toward buying the ball park-the Cardinals sliced the price from $60,000 to $50,000-and rumors of a $25,000 bid for concession rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sacramento's Saviors | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Harvard as its next-door neighbor on Huntington Avenue, Symphony Hall. It is inhabited by lonely girls who are just aching for a dancing partner. You pay $.50 to get in and then you ask whom you will to dance. There are no more charges, and you may escort the young lady to her home if you wish, and if she's willing...

Author: By L. ESPRIT Gauiols, | Title: Harvard Life Proves Not to Be All Work and No Play | 3/3/1944 | See Source »

...antisub vessels will have predominantly Negro crews. A destroyer escort will be manned by 160 Negroes and 44 whites, a patrol chaser by 52 Negroes and nine whites. The whites will hold billets requiring specialized training, will ail be replaced by Negroes as they qualify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - 22 Officers | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...Turned over to Vice Admiral Raymond A. Fenard of the French Navy the U.S.-built destroyer-escort Sénégalais...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Week, Feb. 21, 1944 | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

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