Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegates dispersed in London after amiable cordialities, but Red-sympathizing sailors of the Portuguese Fleet in Lisbon harbor were so vexed that they mutinied against their officers on the sloop Afonso de Albuquerque and the destroyer Dāo. Immediately Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar opened fire on the ships with powerful Lisbon fortress batteries, disabled and towed them ashore where it will not be difficult to patch them up. Oliveira Salazar soldiers marched the mutinous sailors to jail whence they expected to be sent to the Portuguese penal colony in the tropics. In an adroit proclamation the Portuguese Government...
...capital Premier Largo Caballero had to use all force at his disposal to keep his enthusiastic friends from massacring all Whites held in Madrid jails. Announced by the Government without further explanation were the ''sudden deaths" of General Enrique Marzo of the Spanish infantry, millionaire Count de los Moriles and onetime Spanish Premier Damaso Berenguer...
Dashing in his blue overalls to the southern front of Madrid's defenders near Talavera de la Reina, the new Premier conferred with the Red officer to whom for the first time had been entrusted supreme command of the capital's forces, cigar-chewing General Juan Asensio. The Premier told him that the Red expeditionary force which fortnight ago failed to take the Island of Mallorca from the Whites was returning to Madrid last week via Barcelona, strengthened by 5,000 of that independent city's Red Militia who had been hired to fight for the Government...
...withstand tensions of over four tons per square inch. It can be sawed, cut, drilled, polished, cast into molds. "The transparency, brilliance, strength and permanence of Pontalite are unusual, and the absence of color permits fabrication into delicate tinted shades."-Dr. Harry Robert Dittmar of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
...industrialists must think in terms of income and outgo, in terms of sales revenue and costs. The student can hardly learn too soon that the dollar sign is an unwritten but potent factor in every industrial chemical education."-Emile F. du Pont, personnel manager of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...