Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After leaving Vancouver, the St. Roch rounded Alaska, entered Beaufort Sea, touched Baillie Island, went on to Cambridge Bay. She turned back to winter in Walker Bay, on the midwest coast of giant, icebound Victoria Island, went on in the spring...
...hotels thus taken over for government use are in such pleasure centers as Miami Beach (150) and Atlantic City (44) but some are downtown landmarks such as the Stevens and the Congress in Chicago, the Empire in San Francisco (bought for Treasury Department offices), the staid old Victoria in Boston, now being made shipshape for the WAVES. Some have been bought outright, others leased for the duration...
...Orissa Province furious mobs stormed police stations. At Eram 25 were killed. In Old Delhi gunfire dispersed 2,000 demonstrators. In Bombay, scene of earlier gas attacks (see cut), lathee charges left blood-covered cobblestones in front of a statue of Queen Victoria. Some Indians in the hinterlands used bows and arrows. Guerrilla gangs attacked railways...
...Victoria and another Ukrainian reminisce about their native city of Dniepro-petrovsk. Both feel that the city is not really in German hands. To them it is still Russian...
...ferryboat approached the landing stage, Victoria confessed: "You know me, always a little frightened to get out. I've already been wounded twice, once very seriously. But I don't believe I'll die yet because I haven't begun to live...