Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Comité Imperio, surviving the brewery raid, had made contact with exiled Spanish socialists in France. Three months ago in Toulouse the socialists held a convention attended by delegates of the American Federation of Labor. The deteriorating economy of Spain, recent strikes in Barcelona and other cities, the reported illness of General Franco (he is expected soon to undergo an operation for a bladder ailment) spurred hopes of a new regime in Spain. The A.F.L.'s European representative, able Irving Brown, made a careful roundup of information available in Toulouse. Brown's conclusions, as reported last week...
During World War II, Lieut. Per Edvard Danielsen's swashbuckling sea-raids against the Nazis made him something of a national hero. In 1941, as skipper of a motor torpedo boat, he helped strike one of the first blows against the Quisling government, in a Commando raid from Britain against Norway's Nazi-occupied island base of Maaloy...
...four piston engines, but the B-50, instead of slowing up, flew even faster, on nothing but the power of the whining metal cigar. The bomber's air-speed indicator edged up to 370 m.p.h. Over Bangor, Me., an F-86 jet fighter, part of the air-raid interceptor defense, streaked up through the clouds, swept in close to investigate the B-50's strange, roaring belly...
Resistance to the regime inside Albania has been getting outside encouragement. Despite antiaircraft fire, strange planes have been flying over Albania dropping leaflets with the message: "Long live Albanian liberty. Do not lose faith. You will be freed soon." After each leaflet raid Shehu's police try to hold residents indoors until all leaflets have been picked up. Sponsor of the leaflets is the Free Albania Committee, whose headquarters is in New York City and which wants to bring back King Zog, now in exile in Egypt. Who supplies the aircraft is a Balkan mystery. Yugoslavia anxiously disclaims...
...Manhattan, Actress Gertrude (The King and I) Lawrence signed on for a bit-part in civil defense, got billing as air raid warden...