Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...futile patrol until fuel ran short. The minesweeper Swan put ashore a searching party at Canton Island, where last month a party of scientists viewed the | solar eclipse (TIME, June 21). Meanwhile the aircraft carrier Lexington, with 62 planes aboard (instead of 72 as first announced) and an escort of four destroyers, sped out of San Diego at forced draft, stopped in Hawaii to refuel, arrived in the search area early this week. If the Lexington's great fleet of planes could not find the lost flyers. Rear Admiral Orin G. Murfin, coordinator of the search, planned to abandon...
...Black, Men in Brown. Men in Red, a procession of four miniature battleships moving across the water accompanied by martial music and the drone of airplane propellers. At the climax, a girl in a rhinestone robe mounts in a hidden elevator to the tower-top, with an escort of imitation West Point cadets and fireworks bursting over her head...
...eloped at 16, was Chicago Broker Charles McGrew, whom she divorced before she went to Hollywood. Her second was Producer Paul Bern, a suicide in 1932. Her third, Cameraman Hal Rosson, she divorced in 1934 for reading in bed. For the last two years her most regular Hollywood escort was Cinemactor William Powell. When she fell ill last fortnight, Jean Harlow was at work on Saratoga, with Clark Gable...
...Wind River Reservation southeast of Yellowstone National Park. The Indians agreed, moved and thereafter aided U. S. soldiers in campaigns against such hostile tribes as the Sioux, Arapahoes and Cheyennes. A few years later for reasons now unknown the conquered Arapahoes were given U. S. military escort to the Shoshone lands, protected in their occupancy of a million acres. In vain the Shoshones protested to the Great White Father at Washington...
Methodically, French and British warships continued to escort the evacuation of terrified, undernourished Bilbao children to Bordeaux. First shipload to reach La Pallice were hailed jubilantly by kindly French Communists who had prepared a feast with free catches donated by fishing boats, free bread from city bakeries. On the quayside they welcomed the Basque children with clenched fists and shouted choruses of the Internationale. Startled but pleased the Basque children shrilly sang back a Catholic hymn...