Word: calcuttas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...civilians. British authorities declared a state of "absolute rebellion," ordered loyal troops to "shoot to kill" anyone moving on the streets at night. Before the mutiny ended, casualties mounted to 240 killed, more than 1,300 injured. On the other side of India, demonstrators surged through the streets of Calcutta, and sympathy strikers tied up transportation...
...Calcutta riots the Congress tricolor and the Moslem green flag (and sometimes the hammer & sickle) had floated side by side from windows, from taxicabs, over the heads of marching throngs. Together they had flown from the masts of the mutinous ships at Bombay. At Karachi mutineers scrawled on their ships: "Not mutiny but unity among Indian sailors." A new slogan was heard in India...
...familiar U.S. TIME size. Some-like our prewar Air Express edition to Latin America and the edition we began in Sweden in 1943-carried their own advertising and served our English-reading subscribers around the earth. But most of them-like the editions printed in Honolulu, Australia, Calcutta-served military needs only...
Before long, all U.S. flag lines will be flying Constellations across the Atlantic and on to Moscow, Calcutta, Bombay. Many a foreign line will also be flying them, cobwebbing the steadily shrinking globe with faster routes. Soon there will be few places more than 40 hours from New York...
...same day, in Calcutta's imposing Government House, he granted an audience sought by Mohandas K. Gandhi. For an hour they talked privately. When Gandhi emerged he gave fresh meaning to the Viceroy's words. To the waiting crowd he said: "India has attained her great position in the East because of her message of peace...