Word: port
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country nevertheless spurred its production of tiles and potteries, radio and electrical appliances, Diesel engines, chemicals. Amsterdam (and Antwerp in Belgium), are the largest diamond-cutting centres of the world, an operation carried on in plants similar to auto factories. Rotterdam developed into the continent's third biggest port for transshipment of goods and houses sizable shipbuilding yards...
...tune: God Bless You, Mr. Chamberlain. What consolation he could the Prime Minister took from echoes of this ditty and from the list of his distinguished gouty predecessors: Derby, Disraeli, Palmerston, Melbourne, Canning, the Pitts.-Several of these statesmen courted gout by stuffing themselves with mutton chops and port. But hard-working Neville Chamberlain is no high liver. Said his sympathetic friends: his trouble was "poor man's gout," a hereditary chronic disease (his father, Joseph Chamberlain, had it) which may torment even teetotalers...
...having made it clear that there were some things that could not be surrendered, even by the weak to the strong, the delegates left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently broke down on Russia's demands for a naval base at or near Finland's best port, Hangö. "What would the English think," asked Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, "if the Isle of Wight were in foreign hands, or Americans if Sandy Hook were in the same position?" Next move, he said (without guessing whether it would be diplomatic or military) would be Russia...
...assignment, of which he made a deep and unremitting study. In his hot spot in the Far East he sat coolly, made the U. S. fist in Asia something to be reckoned with. Last summer the Japanese Navy warned a U. S. destroyer out of China's port of Swatow. "We're staying at Swatow," radioed Admiral Yarnell, said further that he would hold Japan responsible for U. S. lives lost. The State Department backed him. The Japanese Navy respectfully thanked him for his "sympathetic attitude." The U. S. destroyer, unmolested, stayed at Swatow...
...presence, detailed the mine layer Olaf Tryggvason and a torpedo boat to watch her. Off a fiord north of Bergen, the German prize crew requested that because of a sick man aboard, it should be allowed to put in at Haugesund, 60 miles south of Bergen and last port before the jump-off into British-patrolled waters. A doctor from Olaf Tryggvason went aboard, but all he could find by way of sickness was a man who had barked his shin on a barrel. Russia had let City of Flint enter Murmansk on the unverified claim of engine trouble; cocky...