Word: bosporus
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...Ocean. The U. S. would be in a similar position if its only outlets to the world were through Alaska, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and the mouth of the Mississippi, which was held by a foreign power (the Turks). Since the 18th Century the Russians have hankered to possess the Bosporus and Dardanelles. When they tried to get them in 1854 the British, the French and later the Italians joined the Turks rather than let the Russians obtain a foothold in the Mediterranean. This campaign (the Crimean War) produced the Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale and the beginnings...
...Situated at the Bosporus of war orders, Curtiss-Wright Co. earned $6,235,969, up 85%, and no more than it may need from now on to carry and pay off the $92,000,000 RFC is planning to lend it. Republic Aviation Corp. earned $842,161 compared with a $524,781 deficit for all of last year. Airlines continued their uptrend. United turned a 1939 first-half deficit of $202,962 into a $288,554 net profit; Eastern in creased net 102% to $733,926. But T. W. A., its pockets emptied buying Stratoliners, had a $390,680 deficit...
...long-winded, quasi-scientific dissertations on foreign policy. Vassiltchenko is Molotov's file man (Molotov cannot go half an hour without consulting a file), and one of his files is labeled Bessarabia and The Straits. In the view of the Russian Foreign Office, Bessarabia, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus are parts of the same objective...
...Whatever Decca's quantity, the quality of Decca's popular recordings remains outstanding in the business. And last month's Decca list feathered Jack Kapp's cap as never before. From the Cape of Good Hope to the Pacific coast and on around to the Bosporus, Decca had collected a rich variety of old and new music of the people, by the people and - at 35? a crack - for a good many people. Album items: Songs of the South African Veld, sung by Josef Marais and his Bushveld band. Part Huguenot, part Dutch...
...place in Turkey's front yard, the Dardanelles. With Italy's fleet on the prowl, Turkey sent her 23,000-ton, model 1911 battle cruiser Yavuz (the onetime famed German raider Goeben) and other naval units into the Sea of Marmara lying between the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Russia began maneuvers in the Black Sea after having laid mines off her main port Odessa and the oil port Batum...