Word: barriere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bicycle scouts in Burmese dress, sent them worming ahead to find weak spots. Small parties of soldiers followed the scouts, stabbed here & there, and called in stronger forces when a foothold was seized. Thus they crossed the Bilin, and moved slowly on toward Rangoon's last important river barrier, the Sittang. The same advance carried them nearer & nearer to the one railway which connects Rangoon with Lashio, at the foot of the Burma Road...
...shredded heaps. U.S. volunteer pilots strafed them. British bayonets stabbed them. Riflemen and machine-gunners tore their advancing ranks on the open flats before the city. But the Japs came on. From Moulmein they drove the outnumbered, outgunned British across the broad Salween River. There, behind the river barrier, the British took their stand between the Japanese and the prize they were fighting for: mastery of strategic Rangoon, of the Burma Road to China, of the invasion road to India...
...attack on Yünnan would immediately run into a formidable barrier of mountains and malaria. It would run into a "Chinese" Air Force of about 200 American P-40 fighters manned by pilots on leave from the U.S. Army Air Forces and about to start service under the Chinese flag. And an attack on Yünnan would run into the determined South China Forces which lack mechanization but greatly outnumber the Japanese...
...when the Germans do turn south, they may have an easier time getting at the oil than is generally supposed. The mountain barrier of the Caucasus is no barrier to oil. The important oil fields are north (Maikop and Grozny) and east (Baku) of the mountains, can be reached over good terrain by good communications lines. How soon Adolf Hitler reaches oil fields, and how soon he gets oil out of them, depend on the Russians and the British, who well know the importance of Middle Eastern oil to Germany's existence...
...Chinook running this year were fingerlings in 1937. At that time Bonneville was already a partial barrier. This fall these fingerlings, now grown to huge Chinook salmon, were moving upstream in numbers that set a modern record. Last week the Oregon State Fish Commission released its figures on September deliveries of Chinook to Oregon salmon canneries. The average September catch has been 2,000,000 lb. Last month's was 9,600,000 lb. Through the first 20 days of September Government fish counters at Bonne ville counted fish using the ladders at the rate of more than...