Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First sign that Congress' public sense of duty might prevail sprang from an even greater phenomenon: a fear among Congressmen that they were not taxing the people for Defense as heavily as the people wanted to be taxed. Testifying on a bill to broaden the Federal income-tax base, raise upwards of $1,000,000,000 a year in new taxes (TIME, June 17), Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau welcomed a thorough, time-taking overhaul of the tax system-should Congress care to stay in session long enough to do the job. The House passed the stopgap bill anyway...
Tunisia 1881 ). His mine barrages last week walled in Bizerte, the main French military base in Tunisia, which was also air-bombed heavily...
Losing the French Navy would seriously affect Britain's fortunes in war with Mussolini through a vast 40,000-mile theatre stretching from Gibraltar to Aden, because all land forces involved therein must be supplied by sea. Commanding the British naval forces based on Alexandria was Vice Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, who last week had to report the torpedoing of the anti-aircraft cruiser Calypso, apparently during action against Italy's Libyan base at Tobruch. His ships sank several Italian submarines and the old cruiser San Giorgio remodeled for coast defense. The British said they were mining...
...Magee is also signing up medical teams of 100 members, in hospitals all over the U. S. In case of war, these teams, from head surgeon to nurse and orderly, can work as a unit in base hospitals...
Caught off guard and inadequately protected, the British aircraft carrier Glorious (22,500-ton sister ship of the Courageous, crew of 1,216) used as a base for air operations against Narvik, was an easy prey to the 11-inch guns of the Nazi warships, as were also the 19,840-ton transport null the 5,666-ton tanker Oilpioneer, and the destroyers Acasta and Ardent. The Allied Expeditionary Force began to evacuate...