Word: boating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palace temple. Bangkok's shops were bulging with niello silverware, hand-woven silks, carved teak heads and snakeskin bags. What was more, the prices were low. For lunch the visitors ate cold prawns in the air-conditioned Chez Eve,* while an Indonesian quartet imported from Singapore played Slow Boat to China...
Pastor Martin Niemöller was packing his bags again. Since U.S. troops ended his eight-year imprisonment in concentration camps for defying Hitler, the lean, 57-year-old evangelical clergyman and ex-U-boat commander (World War I) has been known in Europe and the U.S. as German Protestantism's most dramatic spokesman. This week he is off to Australia...
...agreement with the Polish government in exile to permit Poles in Russian camps to join the Polish forces then being formed in Russia. Again in boxcars, Josepha and her son, following Anders' army to the Middle East, traveled to the Caspian Sea, across it in a cattle boat to Persia. Then a British transport took the Olechnys and other Polish refugees through the Persian Gulf, around Arabia and down to Mozambique. From there they went by train to a camp in Southern Rhodesia. Later they were sent to a new refugee camp near Mount Kilimanjaro in Central Africa...
...this writing Editor Hall has received more than 300 airmail letters. He wonders: "What do you suppose will happen when the boat mail begins to arrive?" Although a majority of the letters bear a U.S. postmark, others have come from Continental Europe, Latin America, and as far away as Wendji-Coq in the Belgian Congo. Furthermore, to Hall's surprise and gratification, 90% of the letters enclose subscription orders. Says he: "What impresses me is the complete faith TIME readers must have in their magazine. Almost every letter had in it money or checks. To have money sent...
...Danube. The First became proudly known as the "Rhine & Danube" Army. He crossed the Rhone on D-day plus 15, when the crossing was actually planned for sometime between D plus 30 and D plus 60. His sappers and bridging equipment had not arrived, but he commandeered every boat, plank and carpenter for miles around, and put 10,000 men and 3,000 trucks across the river in 48 hours. He repeated this tour de force when he crossed the Rhine...