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...Australian troops in Malaya were like Australian troops anywhere. They had little understanding of the strictly English meaning of the word discipline; but neither were they familiar with the meaning of fear. When they arrived at Singapore, they pitched pennies to the dignitaries waiting on the dock. Ashore they shouted, drank, swore, rousted Singapore's residents out of their sleep. When they went into the jungle to train, they groused-but they trained hard and hungered to fight...
...Jutland she was a newfangled seaplane tender named Engadine. Now she was the Corregidor, a dumpy, inter-island steamer, and doom hung above her as she pulled away from the dock at Manila...
...there are potential base sites for joint U.S. -Mexican use: La Paz, offering a good, sheltered bay on the Gulf of California, with Magdalena similarly situated on the Pacific. Potentialities farther south are even more significant: The port of Salina Cruz possesses the only coastal dry dock from San Francisco to Panama, also has a fueling station. The fine harbor at Acapulco has a repair base, Guaymas a repair yard. Manzanillo is another fueling station...
...torpedo struck the side on which I was standing, about twenty yards astern of my position. It felt like the ship had crashed into a well-rooted dock. It threw me four feet across the deck, but I did not fall, and I did not feel any explosion-just this very great...
Moore-MacCormick ships used to dock with hams from Gdynia, cheese and tinned fish from Norway, fancy breads from Sweden. American Export freighters brought snails from Casablanca, almonds and wines from Marseille, chestnuts and anchovies from Genoa and Naples, figs from Smyrna and Piraeus, Balkan herbs. Along Manhattan's South and Washington Streets, around 200 brokers large and small were having their Christmas rush, their warehouses full of sugar and spice...