Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need only view the record of each ship as it leaves port-those left in jail, those who have run afoul of the law, those who have become diseased...
Meanwhile, at the Paris Peace Conference, Russian-dominated Bulgaria asked for the eastern half of Thrace. In effect, this would give Russia an Aegean coastline, an inferior port (Dede Agach). More important, it would further seal off the Straits, further menace Turkey and Greece...
...arterial railroads. Like a huge capital A, these trunk lines run from Peiping (at the northern apex of the A) southward to Hankow and Nanking. The bar across the A was the Lunghai Railroad which meandered from Sian, in China's far west, to Laoyao, a minor port on the coast. For Nationalists and Communists alike, control of this A was a strategic necessity. Through its two-way gate Nationalists could move to conquer and hold Northern China. Communists hoped to pour through it to conquer the Yangtze Valley. But if the A was the key to Peiping...
...bring education to children of trappers, railway section hands and woodsmen, the Ontario Government has converted seven rail coaches into school cars, each complete with 14 desks, blackboard, library. In September the cars are coupled on to regular trains, roll out of North Bay, Chapleau, Capreol, Port Arthur and Sioux Lookout, then are shunted to convenient sidings...
...advance ballyhoo brought a crowd optimistically estimated by the Herald to be 500,000 and by anybody's count, a lot of people. For five hours they lined both sides of the river, watched as the Army, Navy and Coast Guard put on a stunt series, heard the Port of Boston band (also working gratis) make music. The windup was a fireworks display, which the Herald bought at half price. Hits of the show: the Army's jet-propelled Shooting Star, a Coast Guard breeches-buoy rescue of an Old Howard burlesque dancer, Lotus DuBois. During the excitement...