Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John P. Lewis, of Hudson Falls, N. Y., A.B. Union College '41, at present a student in the School; John S. McCauley, of Washington, D.C., A.B. University of Wisconsin '39, M.A. ibid. '40, Junior Economist, Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor; Gordon N. Perry, of Victoria, B.C., A.B. University of British Columbia '33, Director of Bureau of Economics and Statistics, British Columbia; James E. Victory, of Arlington, Va., A.B. University of Washington '37, M.A. Yale '39, Associate Economics Analyst, Farm Credit Administration, United States Department of Agriculture...
Unwillingly at home, chafing for news of the show was the Commandos' boss, gay but cutlass-keen Captain the Lord Louis Mountbatten, 41-year-old second cousin of King George, great-grandson of Queen Victoria. Lord Louis, who has had four ships shot out from under him in naval action, was recently made head of the Combined Operations Department, now reports only to the Prime Minister...
...Victoria affair looked as if it might really put the Axis on the spot in Argentina...
...like this. With her blue-&-white Argentine merchant flag floating free, ARGENTINA and a painted flag enormous on her flanks, the brand-new, U.S.-built, 12,500-ton tanker Victoria, Felix G. D. Salomone, Master, tanks blown full of Argentine linseed, was clipping along northbound 300 miles off Cape Hatteras. Just before sundown one day, a torpedo smacked into her 30 feet aft of amidships. Deck plates buckled, but her all-welded Albany hull stood up: the bulkheads of the tanks were unbreached...
...Punta del Este; motor repairs at Rio; propeller trouble at Recife; 41 days for a 16-day run). The captain and part of his crew were mildly embarrassed when a U.S. man-of-war picked them up after two nights and a day, informed them that cranky, stubborn Victoria had refused to sink and was drifting derelict, and put them back aboard her. There they found the rest of the crew, calmly awaiting their arrival. Under her own steam the $1,000,000 Jonah limped into New York, berthed in Edgewater. "Miraculous," said the crew...