Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R.C.A.F. announced that a survey party, flying low over the vast, frigid Foxe Basin in the Arctic Ocean, had rediscovered the Spicer Islands, first found by a Massachusetts whaler in 1897 and then "lost." Flight Lieut. J. F. Drake of Vancouver said that runways could be constructed on two of the marshy islands but that they would be ". . . hazardous operational bases...
Shrewd, Harvard-accented Publisher Robert B. Choate, 48, had dreamed up a celebration that was as inexpensive as it was spectacular. To the Charles River Basin the Herald's advance ballyhoo brought a crowd optimistically estimated by the Herald to be 500,000 and by anybody's count, a lot of people. For five hours they lined both sides of the river, watched as the Army, Navy and Coast Guard put on a stunt series, heard the Port of Boston band (also working gratis) make music. The windup was a fireworks display, which the Herald bought at half...
...massive display of fireworks, military and naval aircraft, air manuvers, two bands, dancers and stunt events may be witnessed by the public on Thursday at 4:30 o'clock. The spectacle, which is to take place in the Charles River Basin, is sponsored by the Boston Herald in celebration of its 100th year of journalism...
...fifth Annual Inter-Collegiate Yacht Racing Summer Dinghy Regatta held last Sunday in the Charles River Basin, the "summer supplement" of the Harvard Yacht Club placed third in a field of 16 colleges...
Three crews, composed of experienced oarsmen from the Varsity squads of last spring will compete Wednesday in an informal mile race in the Charles River Basin on Wednesday at 4:45 o'clock...