Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Tin Pan Alley to Broadway was an easy right turn and ft om there Rose went on to operating all over the map: in Manhattan with a succession of nightclubs (Casino de Paree, Casa Mañana, the still flourishing Diamond Horseshoe), at the Centennial Fair in Fort Worth (at a wage of $1,000 a day, at San Francisco's, Cleveland's and bushing's fairs. The Aquacade alone netted him $2,000,000 after taxes...
Fifty convalescent war veterans from Fort Devens will arrive at 9:30 o'clock this morning for an all-day tour of the University. The soldiers, who have seen action in all theatres of war, will be welcomed on their arrival by Dean Buck in the Faculty Room of University Hall...
...chorus of Roll Out the Barrel the Valencia lumbered over the Italian fort. Fuses were lighted with cigarets, but there was almost disaster when the bomb stuck in the door. Finally the crew, their backs braced against the fuselage, managed to get the bomb away. The Valencia lurched crazily as the fort, squarely hit, disappeared in a cloud of smoke...
...South African Air Force headquarters, which had not been informed, the Italian radio that night sounded more than usually inaccurate. It told of a "powerful South African Air Force raid" on the Namoroputh fort...
Apparently Americans would also continue to train Chinese troops for the coming battles. In Yunnan province thousands of Chinese have already passed through bases like "Little Fort Benning," grown husky and active on good food, learned modern communications and tactics from U.S. instructors...