Word: bases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent from Sokota to relieve them, was completely surrounded in its turn at Bilbala Gorgis. Only the air force could have saved the situation with its timely action in revictualing the besieged, and bombing and machine-gunning the hordes of rebels. Planes left every day from the base at Diredawa, 200 miles away, and supplied the men with a total of 130 tons of supplies, nine tons of munitions and 88,000 thalers [$47,000 in silver coin]. At the same time they dropped abundant quantities of bombs on the enemy, who were trying to close in on the besieged...
...collapse-its piers were knocked out from under it. Ice, blown by gales out of Lake Erie and over the falls, piled up 90 ft. high in the river, ground into the bridge's unprotected piers set near water level. After 30 hours it simply pushed the base of the big 840-ft. arch at the U. S. end from its pier and the bridge fell. Useful chiefly for sightseeing, the collapse caused only a minor traffic problem between Niagara Falls, N. Y. and Niagara Falls, Ont. Three separate plans for new bridges were under way within...
...southeast tip of Spain the city of Cartagena lies against the base of great treeless hills, facing its superb harbor, its two great forts and the Mediterranean. There in July 1873, in the fifth month of the first Spanish Republic, a group of revolutionaries hoisted the red flag. Because they could not find a pure red one they used the flag of Turkey, with its crescent stained out in blood. The frigates lying in port joined the revolt. From Madrid the central Republican Government, run by high-minded incompetents, badgered by conspiracies Right & Left, sent troops against the city...
...owned 53%, three persons owned 56%, and so on up to ten persons owning 75%. The surtax would apply only if a closely-held corporation failed to distribute less than 60% of its profits. And while the rate would be 20%, the surtax would be figured on a different base with a number of heavy credits. In most cases the surtax and income tax together would work out at less than the highest effective rate at present...
Steaming at 15 knots the Leviathan will make a ten-day non-stop voyage to the 1,500-acre naval base off the little village of Rosyth to be scrapped. Sole passenger will be an auctioneer, housed in the Imperial Suite, listing her furnishings for public sale. Costing, with repairs and rebuilding, over $30,000,000, the Leviathan was sold to Sheffield and Glasgow metal firms for $732,000, plus an estimated $40,000 for the journey to the scrap yard. At the helm of a big ship for the last time, Captain Binks lamented: "I know ships...