Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Seattle they took a steamer to Nome. There they bought prospectors' packs and hiked ten days across the tundra to Cape Prince of Wales, westernmost tip of North America. For $20 an Eskimo boatman in a 30-ft. skin boat with an outboard motor took them across the 20-mile strip of water to Little Diomede Island, last outpost of the U. S. in Bering Strait. For $5 another boatman set them down on Russia's Big Diomede Island, two miles away...
This hesitation is meeting with increased pressure from the U. S. as the problem of hemisphere security becomes urgent. To safeguard hemisphere security the U. S. has recently established as listening posts 20 new consulates. 17 of them in Latin America, two in west Africa and the last in Cape Verde Islands between the two continents. But the U. S. also needs air and naval bases throughout Latin America and has been trying to get them since last summer. The U. S. holds that these bases are essential to hemisphere defense, but Latin America fears that they may be used...
...Magnified, whose real name was Lorenzo Garza, did not like the look of this bull. This bull did not charge straight and clean, coming into the cape with a sharp whoosh. This bull did not charge at all, the cabron, and this day the crowd did not like Lorenzo Garza but much preferred Armillita, who worked in the decadent style of the imitators of Belmonte and (Lorenzo Garza thought) was not of sufficient worth to exhibit himself mano a mano with El Magnifico in the Plaza de Toros in Mexico City. Lorenzo Garza spat in the sand. Then he drew...
American Defense, Harvard Group, is sponsoring a drive to gather "recreational material" for the National Guard units and draftees training at Camp Edwards on Cape...
...bought the schooner Aldebaran, built for Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (as the yacht Meteor III) before World War I. Hayden's idea was to start a passenger service between Hawaii and Tahiti. On his way to Boston to outfit her, Aldebaran ran into a gale off Cape Hatteras, crept into Charleston, S. C. a virtual wreck...