Word: bordeaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jammed aboard the U. S. liner President Harding when she cleared from Le Verdon, near Bordeaux, France on Oct.11 were 597 passengers (157 more than her capacity), 330 of them U. S. citizens. West of Ireland, Captain James E. Roberts turned to rescue the French tanker W. Emile Miguet, which radioed that it had been attacked by a submarine. On his way to her rescue he picked up 36 members of the crew of the British freighter Heronspool, which had also been torpedoed. He finally found the Miguet in flames, could see no sign of the crew, and resumed...
...Into Bordeaux steamed the U. S. Independence Hall with survivors of the City of Mandalay, which was torpedoed as she stood by to rescue survivors of the torpedoed Yorkshire after both ships got separated from their convoy. A U-boat had followed the Yorkshire all day. When the Independence Hall hove to for its double rescue, the U-boat surfaced and its commander, in excellent English, called "Thank you!" He had killed 67 persons in sinking the two ships...
...touch the French coast near the mouth of the Somme, pass west of Paris. At eleven two more squadrons of heavy bombers followed the path of the first. By noon some 150 English warplanes, carrying 400 men, were hovering over France; heavy bombers had passed the steel mills of Bordeaux, toward which other squadrons were speeding; medium bombers had circled Orleans, passed Le Mans on their way back to Cherbourg and home. At 2 p. m. the first squadrons of Blenheims and Wellingtons were at their airports; five minutes later the lighter bombers landed...
...captain in the French army from 1914 to 1917. He came to Harvard in 1917 and took charge of military training at the University. He assumed the duties of a professor of French literature as well. Previous to the war, Professor Morize was a professor at the University of Bordeaux...
...Edward Gray, carrying a crew of eleven and nine technical experts as passengers, the big 314 stopped at Horta in the Azores, then went on to Lisbon, Portugal. From there it was a straight shot across Fascist Spain to the next stop, Marseille, but Captain Gray headed north to Bordeaux, then swung across France to Marseille. Unfavorable winds, said he with a poker face, prevented the flight across Spain...