Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Terrible-Tempered Tarpon. In Port Isabel, Texas, a 6-ft., 125-lb. tarpon got mad at Fisherman William Bledsoe, jumped out of the water into his boat, busted four of his ribs, knocked him overboard, but was too tired to follow him back...
Demobilization was the reason. Before she put to sea on her shakedown, Captain Joseph F. Bolger* had warned that she might be unable to leave port unless qualified replacements were supplied at once, to take the place of engine-room officers and men going ashore for discharge. Scraping holes in the bottom of its manpower barrel, the Bureau of Naval Personnel had found enough hands to keep the Midway's twelve boilers and four engines running...
Over the Side, Over the Hill. But every time she put into port, more crewmen had become eligible for a "ruptured duck" lapel button. By last week, 50 officers and 500 men had gone over the side with their bags...
Rice and flour have been coming to General Tu's armies from Shanghai through the port of Chinwangtao. Supplies started moving north this week beyond the Great Wall over the Peiping-Mukden railroad, which so far has suffered relatively minor damage. At Mukden there will be more rice and flour, unless the Russians or Communists have cleared them out. If heavy fighting develops, ammunition supplies will be another problem: ammunition must still come up from the south...
...declared: the Viet Nam movement was an internal Indo-Chinese affair; while China would not recognize the native "provisional government," neither would it interfere with it. The spokesman also hinted that China wanted a voice in the operation of the French-owned railway that runs from the Indo-Chinese port of Haiphong to Kunming in China's southern hinterland...