Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memorable vote came on a 1939 proposal to spend $5,000,000 for dredging and improving Guam's harbor, constructing seaplane ramps and a few buildings. Actually, these improvements would have done little to deter the Japanese seizure in December...
Cool autumn winds off the River Plate stirred fitfully through Buenos Aires this week, fluttering bright political posters on the walls, wafting a rich aroma from the stand-up coffee bars, riffling the leaves of the acacia trees. Steamers hooted in the harbor, cattle bawled in the stockyards, streetcars clanged and creaked. In the restaurants, solid citizens, their appetites renewed by the crisp air, tucked napkins into collars and turned with sober and fastidious attention to platter-size steaks and tall bottles of red wine. At night, in the tango palaces, unsmiling couples danced as black-suited singers mourned...
...about to send an Israeli ship through the canal to assert its right, and Egypt just as huffily said that the ship would be stopped on the basis of Egypt's right to "self-defense." For more than a month a ship fully loaded has sat in Haifa harbor ready for the testing. For 48 hours last week there was an onrush of international tension. The U.S. announced publicly that it still supported Israel's legal position in Suez, but it has privately counseled Israel to move gradually and to establish a pattern of shipping Israeli goods...
Within a few minutes, a grim detachment of Marines rounded up the pirates and put them ashore. Next day the episode hit the headlines, and there was at least one facetious reference to Pearl Harbor. It was all so embarrassing that the Royal Australian Navy felt obliged to announce that, of course, the United States Navy had known about the gag and simply played along. The men of the Bennington knew better, but decided to take their humiliation in stride. They collected $1,800 for the boys' charity and handed it over to Sydney's Lord Mayor Harry...
Knight swung his weight behind F.D.R. six months before Pearl Harbor, supported the Marshall Plan "with misgivings." A Taft supporter when he visited Ike in May 1952, Knight sensed immediately that Eisenhower "had a fresher and more modern approach." The publisher's vigorous support of Eisenhower earned him the President's "admiration and warm regard" -the phrase Ike wrote on the signed photograph that still faces Jack Knight's desk...