Word: base
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned loose from their prison in Sirdhana's forward hold, recaptured later. The third officer of a Japanese steamer moored nearby rushed to the rescue in a small boat. Blamed for the disaster was a recently derelict British mine, broken loose from the Singapore naval base defense field...
...Joseph Stalin or Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, but having made it clear that there were some things that could not be surrendered, even by the weak to the strong, the delegates left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently broke down on Russia's demands for a naval base at or near Finland's best port, Hangö. "What would the English think," asked Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, "if the Isle of Wight were in foreign hands, or Americans if Sandy Hook were in the same position?" Next move, he said (without guessing whether it would...
...more than 50 years New Jersey has systematically milked the nine major roads* that serve it. Ignoring the earnings of the roads, the State has assessed them a straight 100% on the assumed "real value of their property" (instead of the 30% to 60% base for other real estate). In 1937 the tax assessed was $9,902 per mile of line. It gave New Jersey the U. S. rail-taxing championship: nearly seven times as high as the U. S. average, 2½ times that of the next highest State (Rhode Island). It amounted for Jersey Central to the equivalent...
Blithely letting it teeter, Shaw shifts his base and conducts a League-of-Nations trial of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, with a British diplomat and a Soviet Commissar to whoop things up. In fantastic costumes and with grand-opera flourishes, truculent "Battler" (Maurice Colbourne), swaggering "Bombardone" and arrogant "Flanco" engage in a vicious dialectical dogfight, snapping at the judge and at one another like so many paradoxhunds...
...tower will be an octagonal limestone shaft, 90 feet tall, topped by a dome. In the base will be an organ. Nancy hopes to have it ready for her sunrise service next Easter Morning, will dedicate it formally to Peace on Father's Day. Opposite the site, in the lagoon, lies a small island. The Commissioner of Parks is going to move the island, so that Nancy's tower can be reflected full length...