Word: warship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Japan's bestselling phonograph record in 1951, Tokyo reported last week, was the Warship March of the old imperial navy:-recorded with the brasses muffled and the drums replaced by tambourines and castanets...
...most successful was made by the famous mutineers from the British warship Bounty, who settled down on Pitcairn Island in 1790 with some Tahitian women. The offspring of six mutineers and about a dozen women were examined in 1825 and found to be notably taller than either Englishmen or Tahitians. Some of them were strong enough to lift 600 Ibs. They were so fertile (an average of 9.1 children per family in the third generation) that they soon overcrowded the island. Other isolated racial crossings (which were not adversely affected by social disapproval) turned out almost as well...
...Spanish composer of music who fought in the Spanish Republican Army, rising to command of a corps. As the Spanish Loyalists split into Communist and anti-Communist factions, Duran, never a Red, was definitely and clearly antiCommunist. When defeat came, he was smuggled out of Spain on a British warship. He married an American, became a citizen in four months more than the time required by law, worked for the U.S. Government in Cuba during World War II, tracking down Axis and Communist agents. For the past five years, Duran has been working for the U.N., where he has never...
...jolted navy-backed Premier Pridhi Banomyong, leader of Siam's pro-allied underground during World War II, out of power, and supplanted him with Army Man Phibun, a wartime Japanese collaborationist who is now an ardent friend of the West. Last week, with Phibun held prisoner on the warship Sri Ayuthia in the harbor, the navy announced that a new government, headed-with Siamese illogic-by a dissident ex-army officer, was taking over. The army supported Foreign Minister Nai Warakan Baucha as interim Premier...
...Juggling of ship registry. Last week the British freighter Nancy Moller, under charter to a Chinese firm, tried to take a cargo of rubber into China. A British warship ordered her back to Singapore. U.S. freighters, under Panamanian registry, are also evading the embargo (see WAR IN ASIA). Panama, however, voted for the U.N. embargo, is now under obligation to curb such sailings...