Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return for such help, Chungking might grant Moscow a warm-water naval base (presumably Port Arthur) and railway rights in Manchuria, thus restoring to Soviet Russia the privileges Japan had taken from...
...Cover) In Simla last week, 21 Indians and one Englishman struggled to solve one of the world's most vexatious problems - giving self-government to India. The Englishman bore the resounding proconsular title of His Excellency, Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wavell (rhymes with naval) of Cyrenaica and Winchester. It mattered little that the title of Viscount of Winchester was as exotic in Simla as the Maharaja of Patiala would be in Wapping Old Stairs. In Lord Wavell was embodied the military might and the political glory of one of the only three great powers to survive...
Elliott Perkins '23, Director of the War Service Bureau, reminded undergraduates yesterday that the Navy has just announced the opening of enlistments for Naval Aviation, Class V-5, for those to be enrolled in the program on November...
...Applicants for this program," Perkins says, "are to report at the Office of Naval Officer Procurement, 150 Causeway Street, Boston. The may go any day except Sunday, and they should arrive at 8 o'clock in the morning. Once, you have arrived at Causeway Street, the Navy will do the rest...
...walls." Her antiquity was a planned part of her function as a training ship. Conway boys were meant to learn seamanship without the help of modern conveniences, and the heavy old cannon that still glowered through the square gun ports were part of a boy's lessons in naval history. To the greenhorn the Conway also looked grimly bare - until he discovered that in exactly ten minutes her crew could let down canvas walls, swing out hundreds of folding desks, blackboards and benches, and turn her decks into floating classrooms for 800 boys...