Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...within six months. Two more, still abuilding, can be completed as carriers within a year. The Long Islands, which can make 17-18 knots, have room for 20 planes and are ideal for convoy duty. Unlike their big sisters, who stay far behind the fleet during combat, they will travel safest in the middle of convoys...
...realized that these widows' weeds, this ostentatious grief were deliberate weapons in the Nazi war of nerves. Finally, nervously, the police arrested some, found, sure enough, they were professional mourners, not going to any funeral. Said Edmond Taylor, in The Strategy of Terror: they had been hired "to travel around in public conveyances wearing deep mourning and giving an exaggerated exhibition of seemingly uncontrollable grief for the purpose of depressing public morale...
...Shreve did not believe the deep-draught New Orleans would long ride over the Mississippi snags. And could she travel upstream against the current? Even Fulton had his doubts. He wrote: "I do not see by what means a boat containing 100 tons of merchandise can be driven six miles an hour in still water. . . ." He offered $100,000 for the patent on a boat that could...
...Freshmen travel to Andover, where they will attempt to repeat their 5-0 triumph over Nicholls Junior College. On the return trip, the Yardlings will elect a captain...
Ahead of them, the Freshmen face a difficult campaign of six games. This Saturday they travel to Andover and the following weekend to Exeter. On the bus returning from the Andover contest, the squad will elect a captain...