Word: depots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appropriate steps were: to order out the air force; send the Peruvian cruiser Coroncl Bolognesi with 400 troops, the depot ship Lima to bottle up rebels in Mollendo; demand pledges of loyalty from the remaining military commanders...
...Columbia National Bank, awoke on a Pullman in Manhattan's Grand Central Station to find that a switch engine had gone somewhere with the train valet and with his only suit. Banker Cooke ordered an invalid's chair, swaddled himself in Pullman Co. blankets, had himself scooted through the depot to the Hotel Biltmore...
...Remainder of Denmark's navy-in-miniature: five fishing patrol vessels, 20 torpedo boats, 14 submarines, one depot ship, one minelayer...
Quartermaster General John Lesesne De Witt explained that the Army's meat purchases are in the hands of depot quar-termasters in the corps areas. In the Philippines the Army & Navy club together to buy meat on one contract to get a lower price. Both Admiral Cheatham and General De Witt said they would be "delighted" to buy beef from U. S. packers if it could be shipped to foreign stations to meet the foreign price. Declared Acting Secretary of War Davison...
Gertrude L. Thebaud. People drove over from Gloucester and Rockport, parked their cars along the causeway and up all the side streets and along the main road clear to the Essex Depot. Workmen knocked out the blocks and a two-masted fishing schooner skimmed down the ways and across the Essex River. They had put on no snubbing line so the craft bedded into the soft earth of the opposite bank. Paid for by Mr. and Mrs. Thebaud, their son-in-law Robert McCurdy. and Basset Jones - all "summer people"; built by Capt. Arthur D. Story; designed to outsail...