Word: ported
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike too. With two other major companies shut down for repairs, Akron was paralyzed. U.S. manufacture of military tires, tubes, self-sealing gasoline tanks dwindled dangerously. Appeals to strikers' patriotism failed; so did "orders" from WLB. Finally (only four days after he had ordered seizure of the Port Arthur, Tex., plants of the Texas Co.), Harry Truman told the Navy to take over the Goodyear plants...
...days last week there were two strikes of more than 450 planes each, one of 600 (on which not a B-29 was lost). By their own admission, the B-29 flyers were running out of industrial targets. Next on the priority list: railroads, hydroelectric plants and port installations. One prime target remains out of even B-29 range: the Jap air force. Since fighter opposition lately has been almost nil, the Japs presumably have withdrawn their remaining planes to the far north, saving them for the invasion...
...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...
Cheer Up! In Port Chester, N.Y., the Item prepared [its] readers for the worst with [these] front-page headlines: HEAT...
...ships of the imperial squadron were heading for the Adriatic port of Brundisium (Brindisi). The largest ship carried vast purple sails; its prow bore a golden lion's head. Lounging in a tent beneath the ornamented rigging was Augustus Octavian Caesar, Emperor of Italy, Gaul and the lands of the Nile. Lying on a pallet in the next ship was the Roman poet Virgil, coughing 'blood and clutching the manuscript of his unfinished masterpiece, The Aeneid...