Word: island
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy officer in Honolulu knew about "Chug-Chug" Williams. For three years the star of the Navy submarine base team, he was a big, wide-shouldered outfielder, who batted lefthanded, whaled the ball at a .350 clip in the cleanup spot. Last year, he helped his team win the island championship. When the team was all set to leave for San Diego to compete for the Navy championship, Chug-Chug refused to go. A chief petty officer got suspicious. Two days later, Chug-Chug surrendered. He admitted he was Seaman First Class Louis B. Williams, sought for three years...
...year-old Sailor Williams from desertion to unauthorized absence, on the testimony of Navy doctors that he suffered from "psychiatric amnesia." Then they sentenced him to three years in prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him off to San Francisco's Treasure Island to await final action. There last week he learned that Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews had set aside the court's sentence. The Navy ushered Williams back into civilian life...
Last week, as the delegates solemnly signed the nine sheets of paper spread out on the green baize table in The Hague's medieval Ridderzaal, The Netherlands formally relinquished her 300-year rule over her rich island empire. There seemed to be at least a fair chance that the new Indonesian Republic might become a stable island in the Communist-roiled waters of Southeast Asia...
During World War II, the U.S. rated its bases in Newfoundland as the strongest outpost in North America's Atlantic defense. Nearly $400 million was pumped into Newfoundland during the war years to build air and naval installations on the rugged island. In peacetime an average of $30 million a year continued to flow from Washington to keep the bases in first-rate shape and, incidentally, provide Newfoundland with the equivalent of an important industry...
...Brokenshire earns about $100,000 a year. He has a house in Manhattan, a country place on Long Island, and is buying "all the insurance and annuities I can find." Says he: "The money means something to a man who's been through two bankruptcies. But the important thing is that I feel my experience is helping people-not just in A.A. but over...