Word: lisbon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streets the Lisbon citizenry did considerable execution by hurling home made bombs at each other. At nightfall a few survivors of the besieged rebels in the forts managed to escape to the mountains after a savage skirmish in the Lisbon Zoological Gardens...
...Schiappa de Azevedo. who had refused to sign deportation orders against the army officers accused of participating in the last Portuguese revolution, the ruckus in April on the island of Madeira (TIME, May 11). Immediately two raggle taggle bands of soldiers, officers, civilians rushed the third artillery in Lisbon garrison and Sao Jorge fortress on the heights above the city, seized cannon and machine guns, pasted up proclamations defying the Government, dug themselves in. Few revolutionists have been so stupid or so brave. Truckloads of loyal troops crashed through the streets, surrounded the rebels and opened a withering fire...
...officers at the Alverca Airdrome joined the revolt and took off with a load of bombs. No fools were Commander America Sanchez and Lieut. Manoel Vazquez. Commander Sanchez joined the revolution, swooped back & forth over the roofs of Lisbon firing his machine gun. He suddenly decided that there was little future in the revolt, turned his plane's nose east and came down safely in Spain. Lieut. Vazquez went up with a crate of nearly 200 hand grenades and spent a busy hour tossing them over the side, trying to hit the Presidential Palace. When his crate was empty...
...nightfall Portugal was quiet. Lisbon was under martial law. No one was al lowed on the streets without a safe conduct pass...
...mostly alone he continued on this line until 1926 when he consolidated seven small companies into Sinclair Oil & Refining Corp. The company grew and prospered apace. Fleets of tankers roamed the seas carrying the name Sinclair. This alert, grinning, hard-headed man's influence was felt in Moscow, Lisbon, Africa, while his company became integrated, rivalled some Standard Oil units...