Word: harborers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks before the Japs struck Pearl Harbor, the nation's defense industries were just recovering from near-paralysis; its key coal mines had been strike-shut. Last week, at another uncertain moment in history, some U.S. citizens rubbed their eyes. Were they dreaming, or were the country's mines shut again...
...numerous moral spirochetes in the Communist mind. The Reds understand very clearly the importance of military power, but they prefer not to use it if they can reach their objectives by propaganda, conspiracy or blackmail. The Communists are not likely to unify the U.S. with a military Pearl Harbor...
...Buffalo one morning last week the Coast Guard's broad-beamed icebreaker Mackinaw began smashing its way across the icebound harbor. A helicopter rose from its deck and flew ahead to hunt crevices and soft spots, radio back the line of least resistance. In a few hours the Mackinaw-helicopter team-the first used on the Great Lakes-had cleared a channel out into Lake Erie. A dozen ore carriers snaked along the narrow channel and followed the icebreaker down to Cleveland, thus opening navigation on the lower Great Lakes...
...first time in more than 400 years, the 60,000 Greeks of the Dodecanese* had something to cheer about. They packed the festive, narrow streets of their medieval capital city of Rhodes as a Greek destroyer, escorted by U.S. and British destroyers, nosed into the mountain-rimmed harbor, and King Paul and Queen Frederika landed to take formal possession of the islands. In 1522, when Suleiman the Magnificent stormed the battlemented castle of the Knights of St. John, the islanders had become Turks; since 1912, when imperial-minded Italy won its Turkish War, they had been Italians. This week...
...climb up a precipitous Red Sea cliff, he discovers what he is looking for, a freshly harvested poppy field disguised as a rose plantation. And from there he follows the raw opium across the Atlantic, finally closing in on the whole racket in a tense battle outside New York harbor...