Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Switzerland's Oerlikon cannon, now being manufactured in Providence for the U.S. Navy. At Roosevelt Field Inn on Long Island, county police arrested Baroness Lisette von Kapri, a civilian flyer, born in Rumania, who for the past year has been friendly with student pilots at Roosevelt Field. In Alexandria, Va., the prize was pink-cheeked Kurt Sell, Washington correspondent for Germany's official DNB news agency...
Divide & Conquer. The Axis grand strategy, conceived in Berlin, is, almost certainly, to divide the forces of its foes and then to conquer each sector separately. Allied strength is maintained by sea power, supported by a string of fortresses stretching around the world: Portsmouth, Gibraltar, Alexandria, Singapore, Hawaii, Panama. The reduction of any of these bastions would cut the Allied life line. The reduction of several would be a catastrophe. There were signs this week that the Axis was planning an assault on one or several...
...Turkey was scared stiff at concentrations of troops in Bulgaria. Turkey issued a declaration of neutrality, but was wavering. The capitulation or conquest of Turkey would be the signal for a flanking attack on Suez, probably an assault on Alexandria from...
...miles off Crete. . . . The R.A.F. escort arrived ... on time, but the ships weren't there and it returned to Egypt. The Navy tried furiously to get the air group back, but it was futile and the ships, completely exposed, were bombed two-thirds of the way to Alexandria...
...hours before dawn one morning last week, Alexandria, La. (pop. 27,000) was wakened by the bangs and bops of rifle fire. In the moonlit streets below bedroom windows flame spurted from Springfields and Garands; from hedges, fences, shadows, machine guns chattered. Streets filled with clanking trucks and sputtering motorcycles. In Louisiana's Army maneuvers, soldiers of three divisions had met in the city, were settling down to fight for its possession. And Alexandria loved it. But Army authorities, mindful of the awful traffic tangle that 8 o'clock would bring, were horrified. Umpires straightway ordered the troops...