Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Argentine merchantman Rio Salado was warped to wharf in Buenos Aires recently, her crew had a tale to tell: on her voyage from New York, the ship had been stopped five separate times by Axis submarines. Once her neutral Argentine markings were proved genuine, she had been allowed to proceed unmolested...
...grey, rusty transport edged with khaki ruffling hitched silently toward the wharf. Ashore, British officers waited nervously for uncouth antics in the Aussie manner...
Then the enemy came by sea. Rabaul sighted three carriers, five transports near its harbor, saw planes overhead. Aussie militiamen radioed that they would blow up the town's wharf and power station and retreat fighting. Then no more was heard from Rabaul by radio. The Jap landed in the Solomons, in New Ireland, at a few tentative points in ill-defended New Guinea...
...gave the U.S. permission to keep seaplanes and ships in Mexican harbors indefinitely. U.S. warplanes are now allowed to fly over Mexican territory, land for 24 hours on Mexican airfields. At Acapulco, on the Pacific Coast almost due south of Mexico City, the Mexicans are building a big concrete wharf which will be used by U.S. warships. But the busiest defense spot in Mexico this week was Baja California, the long, skinny peninsula which juts southward from California...
...Hawaiian Islands the Japanese fifth column worked so industriously that its most flagrant espionage was table talk among Army and Navy people. From a wharf a few miles from the Navy Yard, Jap fishermen in motorboats put out to follow the fleet in battle practice. By night they often turned up inside the deadline around Pearl Harbor's mouth, hissed apologies and withdrew when they were hailed by the patrol destroyer...