Word: attack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farthest north the fate of Petsamo was still in doubt while, to the west, one Russian column pushed southward for an enveloping attack...
...Britain sent 30 Bristol Blenheims. If the sub-zero temperatures and the shortage of daylight did not cripple their effectiveness, the Finns had a good target in Russia's two main supply lines, the Leningrad-Murmansk Railway and the Baltic-White Sea Canal. Aggressive and continuous air attack on the rail line would leave Russia's raiding columns marooned in the wastes of north Finland. By week's end the Finns had taken to the air and were reported to have bombed the railway...
...interpreted by the French as "information please" parties (TIME, Nov. 27), to take the place of air reconnaissance which lately cost the Germans many a plane.* But the French took no chance on letting the scouts hold ground close up to their forward positions, which might prelude a general attack...
...Churchill revealed that 1,000 British merchantmen have been armed to shoot in self-defense at U-boats, that "before long" 2,000 will be so armed. He pointed out that torpedo attack from beneath the surface "can only be delivered at a quarter of the speed that is possible to U-boats on the surface." Not all naval experts would agree. But of convoyed ships declared the First Lord, "less than one in 750 has been sunk...
Died. Ernest Sutherland Bates, 60, insatiably curious author & critic, onetime literary editor of the Dictionary of American Biography; of a heart attack; in The Bronx, N. Y. In one work-crammed year (1936) Dr. Bates produced: The Story of the Supreme Court, The Story of Congress, Hearst, the Lord of San Simeon (coauthor), The Bible Designed To Be Read as Living Literature. Few minutes before his death Author Bates had concluded the preface to his latest book, American Faith, treatise on U. S. religions from 1860 to the present...