Word: harborers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...readers have an advantage). In addition, it gives later published facts about subjects that are in the center of the news, thus being able to bring off a good, all-round article about an event which has not yet been cleared up in the daily papers (e.g., the Pearl Harbor scandal...
...Watery Grave. The French Line resumed luxury service on the North Atlantic with the 18,435-ton liner De Grasse, which entered New York harbor on her first postwar trip. Her two funnels replaced by a single squat funnel, the veteran De Grasse looked none the worse for her attempted scuttling by the Germans in St. Nazaire harbor...
...fight lasted three hours. Escorted by three more destroyers and a cruiser which had rushed to the scene, the Exodus limped into Haifa harbor. As they were transferred to another ship which was to return them to France, where they had embarked, the refugees doggedly sang the Zionist anthem Hatikvah ("Our hope is still not lost...
...thousand miles away, in Bombay harbor, the 400-ton coastal vessel Ramdas, its decks crowded with more than 700 people, headed out for the one-hour run to Rewaz. A wall of water swept in from the open sea, struck the Ramdas a reeling blow. A second huge wave crashed down on the decks, sweeping the screaming passengers into the sea. No lifeboats were launched, no radio messages sent. Clinging to the floating wreckage were 179 survivors. In exactly two minutes, 563 people were lost...
...starting gun boomed. Thirty-four seagoing yachts jockeyed their way across the line and out of Los Angeles Harbor to the open sea. It was the start of the first postwar 2,225-mile California-to-Honolulu handicap race...