Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...howling southwester, a squadron of Blenheim bombers poured their loads into Boulogne, starting fires at the rate of one a minute. At Brest, new Fairey Albacore planes of the Fleet Air Arm plunged through a heavy anti-aircraft barrage to score direct hits on small German naval units at anchor...
Last week the war reached out to Chicago. Since late July the Dutch freighter Prins Willem III had swung at anchor off Navy Pier, unable to sail back up the St. Lawrence for fear of capture in Canada. But by last week internment in Canada looked better to the bored, sequestered Dutch than gazing at the Chicago skyline all day. Onto the deck swung a Canadian crew, headed the Prins Willem III out across Lake Michigan...
...waited-wives with babies their husbands had not yet seen, wives whose honeymoons had been cut short when the Fleet sailed to Pearl Harbor six months ago, sailors' girls, sailors' mothers. The air jangled with the familiar sounds of "the Fleet's in"-the rattle of anchor chains, the shrill of boatswains' pipes-finally the lilting bugle notes of liberty call. Over the sides of the stern grey ships, up from the bowels of four submarines poured officers and men, into motor launches, gigs, barges. Ashore they disappeared like snow in spring. The grey ships, manned...
...week's end, Secretary of War Stimson hinted that "diplomatic steps" were being taken to assure adequate defense for the "southern anchor" of the new Atlantic defense line. Rumors flew that negotiations with The Netherlands Gov ernment in London were under way for base sites in Dutch Guiana. Curagao. It looked as if President Roosevelt might be getting ready to step from the wings with an announcement...
...pontoons. One forms a Y, the other floats between its arms, sliding out to close the bridge, slipping in to leave 200 feet of open water. The 25 concrete pontoons are honeycombed with watertight compartments. From both sides of each floating section a 65-ton reinforced concrete anchor juts into the clay bottom of the lake. Hydraulic adjustments on the anchor cables accommodate the bridge to the rise & fall of the lake level (it varies about three feet in a year...