Word: tripolis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Watch has fought in every British war since the time of its founding. In World War II its six battalions took part in "nearly every principal campaign" the world over -the roster of its fighting stations reads like a wartime atlas: Flanders, Somaliland, Greece, Crete, Tobruk, Alamein, Tripoli, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Rhine. When peace came, Field Marshal Earl Wavell (himself a Black Watch officer) gave to his former Aide-de-Camp Bernard (Beyond the Chindwin) Fergusson the job of historian to the six battalions and their Commonwealth affiliates-a "family" of widespread proportions...
...delegates cheered and Mr. Truman joined them in singing, "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli...
This week, as President Reed set sail for a European inspection tour himself, he was brightly optimistic about his company's next 100 years. Having opened up eleven new branches in 1949, he is now planning new offices in Cannes, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Okinawa and Oberammergau. "The quickest way for other nations to earn U.S. dollars," says Reed, "is to attract U.S. tourists. Because most countries understand that now, I think 1950 will be our best year ever...