Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany for military training during World War I, helped chase the Russians out of Finland in 1918. Five years later he turned up in Mexico, fought on the losing side of a revolution, fled to the U. S. Battle-hardened at 20, he became successively a mechanic in Galveston, Tex., a chauffeur in Manhattan. Last December he smelled powder again, quit his job, went off to fight the Russians in Finland once more. Last week he was back with a story...
...there would be a market for sale and charter of their vessels as goods piled up on U. S. wharves. Still in the free port of Staten Island awaiting shipment to France were many of the 5,000 trucks ordered for the French Army. In the Texas ports of Galveston and Houston, warehouses bulged with thousands of bales of cotton long overdue at their European destination. Two months ago New York elevators were so choked with wheat that rail shipments had to be halted. Imports were similarly delayed...