Word: ported
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Port Arthur will become a Russian naval base-but the Chinese navy, when there is one, will have access to it; civil administration of the port will be Chinese. Russia gets the use of another port, Dairen, on equal terms with China; the harbor master will be a Russian...
...railroad system is heavily damaged. Port facilities for the most part are ready for use. once the mines are removed. The oil and chemical industries are pretty well smashed. So are public utilities-electricity, telephone and telegraph, water supplies, streetcar and bus systems. Steel mills and shipyards are damaged, but probably in better shape than most Americans think. The bombing program never called for complete destruction of the steel industry; the Japs were deliberatelv allowed to waste manpower on ships which were sunk as soon as they took to the seas. Long accustomed to disaster, the Japs themselves may well...
...reports credited the U.S. When news of the Russian terms to China reached the U.S. delegation at Potsdam, they insisted that the Chinese Eastern and the South Manchuria railroads become common carriers, free for all nations to use. The U.S. also insisted that the Open Door policy apply to Port Arthur and Dairen. Russia agreed...
...second Nazi submarine, the 600-ton U-977, last week popped up off the Argentine naval base of Mar del Plata. She showed the swastika flag, startled a lonely fisherman. Then Argentine war craft mothered her into port. Cracked Montevideo's El Diario: "It is surprising, this marked preference of Nazi vessels for Argentina...
...would recommend to the Government of the United States," wrote William Eaton, grinding his teeth, "to station a company of comedians and a seraglio before the enemy's port...