Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...census figures, New York still held a big lead as the No. 1 state, with a population of 14,743,210. But the real surprise was bustling, booming California (10,472,348), which had jumped in ten years from fifth to second place. The next eight: 3. Pennsylvania...
...Communist Party line to put off the longshoremen's demand for a formal endorsement of the U.S. military action in Korea. Bridges' parliamentary tactics stalled a vote on the resolution at the first meeting of Local 10; some of Harry's muscle boys broke up a second meeting with a well-timed fist fight...
...second day out, an Australian destroyer escort recorded a loud "ping" on its sonar, confirmed what Admiral Doyle had suspected: Russian submarines were keeping close tabs on U.S. naval movements. But this sub apparently was interested only in observation. Said an Australian destroyer officer later: "We held her for three minutes, but she cut through the convoy and we lost contact...
Mark Twain would have liked A Stretch on the River, but not Mark's genteel wife Livy. The fact is that Deck Hand Bill Joyce thought and talked mostly about women and so did Joe, the second mate...
...Bissell, Bill Joyce had some fancy schooling and a well-to-do father. When he reported for work on the towboat Inland Coal after being turned down by the Navy in 1942, he went aboard sardonically quoting from Moby Dick ("Call me Ishmael") at the tow-boat's second mate. But after he had finished his first year Joyce had river fever bad, had his sights set on a mate's job and even put river life above his girl. Of course he got the girl, wound up a pilot...