Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...considered. On Nov. 29, Tokyo had cabled its consulate in Honolulu: "We have been receiving reports from you on ship movements, but in future will you also report even when there are no movements." And on Dec. 6 Honolulu cabled back to Tokyo: "The following ships were observed at anchor-nine battleships, three light cruisers, three submarine tenders, 17 destroyers, and in addition there were four light cruisers, two destroyers lying at docks...
Last week, from U.S.-occupied Chin-wangtao, Central Government troops broke through Communist lines at Shanhaikwan, coastal anchor of the Great Wall. For the first time since 1931, Central Government forces were on Manchurian soil...
Everybody in Spartanburg County was certain that 24-year-old Gene Atkins would be a success and a great credit to the community. Wrote the ladies of the Cross Anchor Methodist Church: "It is men like you, Pfc. Atkins, that makes this America of ours the wonderful place...
...nights before the anniversary, explosions rocked Palestine from Dan to Beersheba. Armed bands, operating under a master plan of sabotage, crippled the country's railroads with dynamitings at 153 points. In Haifa harbor, where a British cruiser and four destroyers lay at anchor, police launches used for halting illegal immigrants were boarded and scuttled. At dawn six men were dead, eight wounded. Two of the dead were Jews. British authorities clamped a curfew on the whole coastal area...
...interest rate would be 2% (the U.S. Treasury, which can borrow for less, would make a profit at this rate); ill-prepared Britain would have to plunge again into fully competitive world trade and cast off her sea anchor, Empire preference...