Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brittle. Even so, trains came into Grand Central Station as much as seven hours late, the Queen Elizabeth's sailing was delayed twelve hours, and 1,300 Brooklyn homes had their supplies of heating gas cut off. In Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Detroit and many another city, industrial gas and power supplies were slashed. Detroit's auto plants laid off workers by the thousands. In St. Paul, the cold halted construction work on an ice palace being built for a winter carnival, opening Jan. 31. At 20° below, the ice was too brittle to be cut into uniform blocks...
...year-old Queen Elizabeth had been the Grand Fleet's flagship in World War I. Aboard her, the Germans surrendered their Navy in 1918. During World War II, she almost met an ignominious end. In 1942, as she lay moored in the shallows of Alexandria harbor, Italian "human torpedoes" got in under her, attached time charges, blew great holes in her hull. Patched in the U.S., she finished out the war in the East Indies...
...Queen Elizabeth's sister battleship Valiant fought at Jutland in World War I; through the good & bad days of World War II she did heavy duty helping to protect the Empire's precarious lifeline in the Mediterranean...
Their purpose was noble; they themselves, with few exceptions, were unassuming. They drifted into Philadelphia one or two at a time, put up at the Indian Queen Hotel, got to the State House at 10 or 11 in the morning, and sat around in the famous room with its high windows, waiting for the other delegates. They arrived so slowly that the opening hour was changed from 11 to 1 p.m. On May 25, 1787, almost two weeks after the first delegates assembled, the Constitutional Convention held its first official session...
...overruled the commanding general of the 8th Mountain Division, who had told correspondents: "She will not go to Konitsa. She may be queen, but I am king up here." Frederika was the first to cross the shell-blasted bridge to Konitsa after the engineers had repaired...