Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convoy was two days out of Alexandria, with supplies for unconquered Malta. So far the only enemy had been the choppy Mediterranean waves, making life miserable for the correspondents on one of Rear Admiral Philip L. Vian's light cruisers. Then, at dusk of the second day, birds of death appeared in the sky. Five swastikaed transport planes and a Messerschmitt flew overhead, winging from the Libyan front to German bases in Crete. They had sighted the convoy, and the British knew that the next dawn would bring enemy planes and warships...
...minds, on drafting boards, in molten pig rolling out of blast furnaces, in mold lofts, in shops where steel was twisted and wrenched into shape, on ways, alongside docks getting fitted out and smeared with the last daub of grey war paint. Some were on the high seas. Into Alexandria, Egypt, last week steamed the Patrick Henry, after a maiden voyage that took her around South Africa, through the Red Sea and the Suez into the Mediterranean, with 10,000 tons of war supplies...
Died. Mackie Paschall Davis, 64, wife of Red Cross Chairman Norman H. Davis; after long illness; in Alexandria, Va. Mother of eight, grandmother of 21, she had accompanied onetime Diplomat Davis on all his many missions...
...holds none of Yugoslavia's munitions factories. He has some outside aid from unrevealed sources-perhaps by air from Russia. Last week the Government asked the "U.S. for Lend-Lease aid. It would be hard to deliver such aid-the nearest fixed Allied base is in Alexandria, 1,200 miles away-but in a world of desperate and needy fighters there was no one more deserving of help...
...army has stationed Negro trainees in Southern training camps, in total disregard of the common fact that race prejudice is there most intense. The results were inevitable. On January 10 a white MP and civilian police opened fire on a group of colored troops in Alexandria, Louisiana, and 29 of the soldiers were wounded. A War Department investigation has determined that, "while a show of force may have been necessary to disperse the crowd which gathered when a colored soldier resisted arrest by a military policeman, the shooting was unnecessary." This was not the first, but merely the most spectacular...