Word: gunboats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Round about the city marched and countermarched the armies of the usurper, President Chamorro and the Liberal counter-revolutionary leader, onetime Vice President Sacassa. Total casualties for the week were roughly estimated at 100. After a particularly fierce skirmish, President Chamorro courteously requested the commander of the U. S. gunboat Tulsa, which was anchored at the port of Corinto, to steam seven miles up the coast to the scene of battle and take care of the wounded, since neither army was equipped with a medical corps. Dutifully the Tulsa steamed out to tidy up the battlefield, found no battlefield...
...gunboat Galveston steamed through the Panama Canal last week turned northward and cast anchor in the Nicaraguan harbor of Bluefields. Simultaneously the U. S. gunboat Tulsa anchored off Corinto on the opposite (Pacific) coast of Nicaragua. Thus U. S. cannon faced each other across the 200 mile extreme width of a nation with which the U. S. is at peace. Several hundred U. S. marines were landed with fighting equipment at Bluefields...
Byrd. Off the frozen coast of Spitzbergen, with a blizzard raging, came Commander Richard E. Byrd with his U. S. comrades and airplanes aboard the Chantier. They were blocked from Kings Bay's one pier by the Norwegian gunboat Heimdal (she was coaling), and had to cast anchor half a mile offshore. Making a raft out of heavy planking and four lifeboats, they labored all one night at the ticklish task of hoisting from the hold delicate wings and fuselages and towing them in on the raft. The Hobby, Amundsen's 1925 baseship chartered this year by Byrd...
Amundsen. The Norwegian and U. S. commanders of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile expedition finished unloading equipment from the gunboat Heimdal at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, and settled themselves to await the arrival of their Italian colleague in their dirigible Norge, long overdue from Leningrad. The first days of all-night sunshine found them skiing on the slopes of Mount Zeppelin*, eating seal-steak at Sailmaker Roenne's house, putting finishing touches to the dirigible's mooring mast and hangar...
Besides Mr. Dix and Miss Wilson, especially good work is done by Edna May Oliver, the sorrowful comedienne, who does the out-of-town hymn book buyer in search of a thrill to perfection; and "Gunboat" Smith, who, as the minion of the law, proves that the cauliflower industry is sometimes capable of producing something besides real estate agents...