Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buenos Aires the British motorship Gascony floated quietly at her dock, prepared to sail for England with British volunteers and a cargo of canned meat...
...Atlantic is the volcanic tableland called Iceland, which, until April 10, shared Christian X with Denmark as her King. British warships took Iceland under patrol, British troops were sent there "protectively" while the Nazis rampaged through Norway. Last week, following reports of a German expedition about to sail to seize Iceland, Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada announced that a Canadian force had landed at Reykjavik, home of the world's oldest parliament (930 A.D.). Should the Germans arrive and fight, the Battle for Iceland would bring World War II within 2,100 miles of U. S. soil...
...morning last week the U. S. State Department instructed the U. S. Embassy in Berlin to let the German Government know that the S. S. Washington would sail from Lisbon that night loaded with U. S. refugees. The Washington, with 1,020 passengers aboard, duly sailed...
...symbolic opening scene shows young Lanny dancing in a Dalcroze festival in Germany, in 1913-the dance being an interpretation in "Eurythmics," the rage of the time, of the triumph of music over the furies of Hell in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Before the real furies set sail over Europe the following summer, Lanny visits charming upper-class friends in England and Germany, glimpses the squalor of the lower classes...
...Cross War Relief Fund poured in, but at week's end the total was still far below the minimum $20,000,000 which Chairman Norman H. Davis said he must have. A Red Cross mercy ship, the 6,198-ton freighter McKeesport, loaded supplies, got ready to sail from New York City. Already hard-pressed, the American Friends Service Committee, which began operating in France 16 months ago caring for Spanish refugees, expanded its program, appealed for more funds. The American Volunteer Ambulance Corps, which already has no ambulances in Europe, recruited college men as drivers, sent...