Word: hartland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London admitted: losses at Oran and Algiers included the Netherlands destroyer Isaac Sweers, the small British aircraft carrier Avenger (a Lend-Lease converted U.S. merchant ship), three British destroyers, five other small vessels and two ex-U.S. Coast Guard cutters, the Walney and Hartland, which, licked by flames, crashed through a boom at Oran into the inner harbor and landed troops before they sank...
...love for railroads watching the Central Vermont's famous engine, General Taylor, cross his father's pastures in North Hartland, Vt. One day in April 1879, he decided to find out where it went, got a job as a $1-a-day section hand, worked up as fireman, locomotive engineer, machinist, trainmaster and superintendent. At 43 he became vice president of James J. Hill's Burlington. When in 1910 he got his call to put B. & O. in order, Hill fought to hold him, vainly offered to merge the Burlington and Great Northern, make Uncle Dan president...