Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acting port director and operations officer at Tacloban failed to investigate the Indianapolis' nonarrival; their failure went unnoticed because their superior officers were not exercising proper supervision...
...week long, eager, smiling German-Americans (500 to 2,000 a day) had bustled aboard the Nazi prize cruiser Prinz Eugen to fete her Nazi crew. They carried dozens of white shirts, bags of sugar, cartons of cigarets, beer-trophies few victorious U.S. crews have received in any port...
Letters of reprimand have been issued to Commodore Norman C. Gillette, who was acting commander of the Philippine Sea Frontier, his operations officer, Captain Alfred M. Granum, and the port-operations officer, Lieut. Stuart B. Gibson. A milder letter of admonition has gone to the acting port director, Lieut. Commander Jules C. Sancho. (Both Gibson and Sanchp are reserve officers, now getting out of uniform...
...something by Rex Beach out of Minsky, with touches of Snow-Bound and Tosca. Hope and Crosby are confidence men. Setting off for Alaska by ship, they accidentally toss their bankroll out of a porthole. Forced to scrub decks and clean cabins for their passage, they nevertheless arrive in port possessors of a map disclosing a hidden gold mine. The rest of the action takes place for the most part amid deep drifts of Hollywood snow (shaved ice and raw white corn flakes), as Hope and Crosby, assisted by a talking fish, a talking bear, a dynamite-carrying...
...last August's treaty between Chungking and Moscow, Russia acquired a 30-year partnership in the main Manchurian railways, a joint naval base at Port Arthur and a free port at Dairen. Last week the Russians were said to be asking for a share in operating Manchurian mines, heavy industry and telephone lines. For the new Soviet citizens from Shanghai, the prospects indeed looked rosy...