Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signed legislation for U.S. assistance to China in building up and maintaining a naval establishment...
Boundaries. Again the man in possession called the tune. From Finland, Russia is to get the warm water port of Petsamo and a lease on the Baltic naval base at Porkala; from Rumania, 79,300 square miles of Bessarabia. Other shifts in the Balkans give Transylvania back to Rumania, southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. The British and French gain at the expense of Italy: the Dodecanese Islands go to British-controlled Greece; the communes of Briga and Tenda and other bits of the Italian Alps go to France. But Italy is allowed to keep the South Tyrol over Austrian protest. Trieste...
More oil was poured on a still choppy sea by Brazil's Navy Captain Alvaro Alberto da Motta Silva, who took over the Commission's rotating chairmanship. The Captain-a chemist and a physicist, whose naval duties have left him a lot of time for reading-documented the world's urge for peace by citing a long list of immortals: Descartes ("I think, therefore I am"), Virgil (to whom the Captain erroneously ascribed Horace's phrase on war, "matribus detestata"), Thomas Jefferson ("Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"), Abraham Lincoln ("We cannot escape history"), Epicurus...
...covered, radioactive waters of the lagoon still prevented a closeup survey of the damage to what was an 87-ship target array, but the tonnage scoreboard for the first two controlled tests of the bomb's power against naval strength heavily favored this submarine burst. The score thus...
Sparked by the return of Vince Moravec' to the mound and by Charlie Sensucy's three-run homer in the fifth, the Varsity nine bounced back from their recent humbling by Boston University and nosed out the Squantum Naval Air Base team 5 to 4 Wednesday at Soldiers Field...