Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile he had acquired a further honorable record on the battlefield. As an officer in the Pennsylvania National Guard, he had fought with Pershing on the Mexican border. In World War I he had served in France, where he was wounded, gassed and decorated. In 1939, a major general, he commanded and trained Pennsylvania's famed 28th Division. But when war came again, Old Soldier Martin was retired. Heartbroken, he saw his 28th march off under another man's command...
Bumper to bumper, thousands of Detroit cars nosed through the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. They were headed across the border for Canadian steaks. In Windsor, Vancouver, Niagara Falls and other border towns, Americans ate luscious two-inch steak dinners for $2 or less. U.S. newspapers, running pictures of the lucky feeders, made millions of meatless Americans drool last week...
There was something about the five young Canadians that made U.S. immigration men suspicious. At the Detroit border the Canadians insisted that they were entering the U.S. only to see a movie. But a search disclosed that some of the five had draft cards from a Toledo board in their pockets. They were detained...
Nikolai V. Novikov, owlish Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., arriving from Paris at LaGuardia Field, was involved in a border incident with New York City customs and immigration men. He was taken to the crowded Public Health Room for the routine quarantine and immigration lineup, was questioned, examined, and cross-examined as if he were "just a passenger." The procedure annoyed him. When he tried to phone the Soviet Consulate, an airline representative barred the way. Novikov drew his iron curtain about him and glared. A few minutes later, a customs inspector requested him to sign a baggage declaration...
Hwaiyin (southeast of Kaifeng) also fell to Government forces, while Harbin was menaced by General Tu Li-ming's advancing troops, who were spoiling for a fight in Manchuria "before the snow flies." Along the border of Russian-occupied Korea, Government soldiers were preparing a drive on Antung, "funnel for delivery of foreign [i.e., Russian] supplies to the Communists...