Word: baku
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baku was the first Russian ship to call at Brazilian ports since 1917. Citizens of Santos and Porto Alegre paddled out on surfboards to greet female members of her crew. The captain bade his ladies stay aboard, let it be known that by next year 50 Soviet ships would be plying South American waters. From lighters he began taking aboard coffee and hides...
Died. Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville, 80, prototype of Kipling's cool, Latin-quoting Stalky, and last of the immortal trio* of Stalky & Co., in Torquay, Devonshire. As a full-grown soldier he was still the Kipling hero, in World War I bluffed the Turks out of the Baku oilfields with a handful...
...Mapmaker Chapin has always had a hard time distinguishing between Batum and Baku...
...Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan, a purposeful, middle-aged Communist stooge from Baku, Jafar Pishevari, boldly proclaimed himself Premier of the new Azerbaijan Provincial Government...
...clouded with dust and excitement as the National Assembly prepared to proclaim the province an autonomous state, with only the most nominal allegiance to Iran's capital Teheran. A new National Assembly for Azerbaijan was ready to meet and Jafar Pishevari, whose enemies said he came from Russian Baku, was ready to tell the Assembly what...