Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duties. From that time on for more than a century, Britannia ruled the waves, and among her stoutest ships was the Duguay. Refitted and rechristened the Implacable, she sailed out in 1808 to fight triumphantly with the Swedes against the Russians, the French and the Danes in the Baltic. Some 30 years later she headed for the Mediterranean with a combined fleet of British, Austrian and Turkish vessels, in the 1840 war against Egypt. A symbolic cock (to show that she was cock of the walk) rode high above her royals when she returned to Britain...
...reported to Congress that only a fraction of the 205,000 DP's provided for could be processed in the appointed time. For instance, the law specifies that 30 per cent of the immigrants must be agricultural workers, and that 40 per cent must come from the three small Baltic countries. Further, only people who arrived in DP camps during certain periods of time can be admitted, which conveniently cuts down the number eligible in certain ethnic and religious groups...
...weeks ago "at the peril of my naval career," he was promptly moved lout of Washington to a job with the fleet. the white House announcement of atomic explosions in Russia, coupled with persistent rumors of 5000 mile-ranged rockets coming out of the Russian experimental stations on the Baltic, stimulated a drive in Congress for a bigger Air Force. With the present limited defense budget, naval officers fretfully equated this against smaller fleet...
Election day was warm and sunny. Near polling booths in bars and cafes beer flowed as on a special holiday. High on the Zugspitze vacationers took time to vote, and from Baltic beaches bathers ambled inland to cast their ballots. "It does not really make much difference who wins," said a German in Marburg, "as long as there is a big turnout...
...Bismarck, all right. There, in Grimstad Fiord on the Norwegian coast, lay the new Nazi 50,000-ton battle-wagon-bigger and tougher than any British battleship afloat. The British Admiralty had been worrying about the German giant for months; now that she had slipped away from her Baltic anchorage, the Home Fleet would have a crack at her at last. When Flying Officer Suckling photographed the Bismarck from his Spitfire on a May afternoon in 1941, he touched off the greatest sea hunt in naval history...