Word: flag
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...flag came down from the White House staff; a haggard, grey-faced, weary President was whisked over slush-bound streets to his special train on the lower concourse of echoing Union Station. Prying newsmen had discovered Franklin Roosevelt was headed for Pensacola, guessed he would there board the cruiser Tuscaloosa. But every movement had been shrouded in gloomy mystery; trainmen acted as if they had sealed orders, knew only that they were headed south. For the first time since his Administration began, Franklin Roosevelt had not furnished the press with an exactly detailed itinerary of his trip. ". . . Submarines," said...
...North Atlantic into Norwegian territorial waters one day last week came a bulky grey German vessel of some 12,000 tons. She looked like a merchantman: some said she flew the Nazi naval flag; at any rate from her name, Altmark, anyone at all conversant with World War II must have known that she was the armed tender for the late raider Admiral Graf Spee, a ship sought .furiously by the British Navy because she was reported to ' carry, in verminous prison quarters below decks, between 300 and 400 British seamen taken from the Spee'?, seven sunken victims...
...York members of Irish-American societies placed a laurel wreath at the foot of the flag pole at the World's Fair Irish pavilion in memory of the "martyrs...
...Glavsevmorput'. Then the Soviet press started whooping up the drift of the Sedov as a national adventure story. Its goals: to drift closer to the North Pole than Nansen's celebrated Fram (1893-96); if possible, to reach the Pole (where Ivan Papanin planted the Red Flag...
...radio communication, black out and try to slip through. Such an incident might easily transcend the adventure of the City of Flint, the U. S. freighter which was captured by the Germans, detained by the Russians, freed by the Norwegians and returned to Baltimore last week under its own flag...