Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seamen may strike when a ship is docked in the home port. But once a ship has sailed, to strike is mutiny. In Montevideo last week the Algic's Captain Joseph Gainard reported his plight to the U. S. Vice Consul, who went aboard, harangued the mutineers for an hour. Still they refused to unload ship. So Captain Gainard and the Vice Consul shot a cable to the owners...
...title of Victor. Santander had fallen. Free for use on other fronts were 50,000 troops. Next objective in the northwest was Gijon, and as Rightists pushed westward along the Bay of Biscay they claimed Asturian troops were in full flight before them, 5,000 surrendering at the port town of Lanes. The Vatican had recognized the Rightist State. Off the tables of Marshal Pietro Badoglio in Rome was generally expected a new plan of attack by which Madrid would be captured before cold weather set in. The Leftist offensive against Saragossa seemed flopping like a flounder...
...vessels described from their anchorages to Canadian Broadcasting Co. and NBC audiences their historic meeting. Hopeful for the growing trade of the North were residents and sponsors of Churchill that somehow Northwest Passage II would bring business, help redeem millions of dollars sunk in Canada's most northerly port...
...pretty complete one. The Basque militiamen and the Asturian miners, those Iberian Celts who have been fighting each other or someone else since the first Century A. D., were digging in for a last siege in the mountains near Gijón. Gijón, a little cod-fishing port became the capital of what was left of the Leftist side of the Basque Republic-a narrow strip running 125 miles along the Bay of Biscay. In this strip there was no food, no trade. Jose Antonio de Aguirre, the fiery little Basque President who had retreated with his government...
Charles C. Smith, Port Chester, New York--Middlesex School...