Word: arkfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the mouth of the Rio de la Plata where it spews its yellow silt, the Ajax and Achilles waited exultantly for the deadline. Reinforcements came up fast. The much-disputed aircraft carrier Ark Royal and the battle cruiser Renown...
Married. Joseph George Strecker, 51, born in Galicia, Hot Springs, Ark. lunchroom proprietor and onetime U. S. Communist; and Mrs. Emma Howard, 41, Hot Springs widow; in Hot Springs. Last April Strecker's appeal from a deportation order went to the U. S. Supreme Court, which ruled that past membership in the Communist Party is insufficient grounds on which to deport an alien...
Home was the word last week, home to Tallahassee, Tonopah, Cheyenne, home to Havana, Ill., Searcy, Ark., Atherton, Calif., Tacoma, Wash., Jasper, Ala., Yankton, S. Dak., Clovis, N. Mex.-home to the 531 communities, hamlets, cities and wide places in the roads where dwell the 531 Congressmen and Senators of the U. S. For debate on the arms embargo was over. And as President, Vice President, Senators, Representatives and their wives, secretaries and advisers hurried home last week, it was plain that few big legislative discussions in U. S. history had ever begun so tensely, ended so quietly...
Last week a Red-fearing woman in Pine Bluff, Ark. sent Congressman Martin Dies a check for $100. This did not surprise Mr. Dies. But, as a Congressional investigator, he can spend only appropriated funds, so he had to return the gift. In his great hunt for un-Americans, Martin Dies is used to receiving and refunding thousands of donated dollars. Once an 82-year-old beneficiary of Social Security telegraphed SSB to give Martin Dies $362 due her. His take-&-return runs as high as $800 in one day, runs highest when he makes radio speeches announcing that...
...Ark Royal" in the drawings might be the carrier Glorious: she is certainly not Ark Royal, which has a full flight deck. The escorting battleship, aside from being in an unlikely position (aft of the carrier instead of ahead, shielding her), resembles no known British ship (her two masts carry big fire-control tops at the same level...