Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practical side, a famed forerunner of modern design was the ironclad Maine (6,682 tons), ugly and awkward but formidably armed for her day (four 10-and six 6-inchers), but no match for the mine that took her in Havana harbor. U.S.S. North Dakota was another step to today, with 20,000-ton displacement, ten 12-inchers, fourteen 5-inchers...
...British radio announcement that Swordfish torpedo planes were being based in Cuba to aid United States naval and army air forces was confirmed by an official British source in Havana...
Mayor Raul García Menocal y Seva of Havana was welcomed to Washington, but nobody could find the customary key-to-the-city to give to him. Discovery: the stock of keys (brass) had been exhausted, and priorities had delayed replacements...
...enormous doubts, was undergoing a change of heart. Under Secretary Sumner Welles summoned Vichy's Ambassador Gaston Henri-Haye for a stern talk, later denied that the Free French seizure of St. Pierre and Miquelon (TIME, Jan. 5) would cause the U.S. to invoke the Declaration of Havana. He implied that, although the Free French could be told to quit the islands while relations with Vichy remained tense, the U.S. had no idea of telling them any such thing...
...Havana's famed Sloppy Joe's bar closed for lack of U.S. tourists...