Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second Nazi submarine, the 600-ton U-977, last week popped up off the Argentine naval base of Mar del Plata. She showed the swastika flag, startled a lonely fisherman. Then Argentine war craft mothered her into port. Cracked Montevideo's El Diario: "It is surprising, this marked preference of Nazi vessels for Argentina...
Service Resumed. The first passenger vessel from the U.S. since early 1942 nosed its way between the coral reefs that line the channel into Hamilton, Bermuda. She was the Furness, Withy & Cox, Ltd.'s trim, flag-bedecked, 3,500-ton Fort Townsend, carrying 31 passengers and 830 tons of cargo...
...April 27 the revolutionary army attacked Derna. While three warships gave support from the harbor, a central spearhead led by Eaton planted the U.S. flag on the city's walls. Yusuf's governor hid in a harem, and Hamet established himself in the royal palace. For one brief moment General Eaton tasted triumph: "The conquest of Tripoli was in sight and with it would come prestige for the U.S. throughout Barbary, the like of which no other nation enjoyed...
...great Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth approached New York Harbor with a captured Nazi flag flying at her main mast, an effect achieved by laughing, shouting soldiers. Manhattan's excitable garment workers threw tons of paper and cloth shreds into the streets. But elsewhere across the nation there was little public demonstration...
...lost time in North Dakota's bronzed wheat lands, ground to an emergency stop just beyond Michigan City. A few miles back, the Empire Builder's second section was coming in out of the east. A flagman ran the few hundred yards back to Michigan City to flag it, but he never made it. Section 2 hit the Michigan City curve with its exhaust drumming, plowed slam-bang into Section...