Word: biscay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French politeness matched German when, before dynamiting a steel footbridge across the Rhine to the French powerhouse at Kembs (in front of Mulhouse), due warning was given to the German side. Evacuation of 300,000 civilians from Mulhouse to Biarritz on the Bay of Biscay was begun by the French this week. This hinted that the French may expect a real German push at her Belfort Gate, south end of the Maginot-Westwall stalemate, or through the Swiss side door. > Machine gunners on the forefront of the German advance wore steel armor covering them from neck to crotch. Weighing...
...Spain, diplomats have moved from Burgos, which Spaniards claim is Spain's hottest spot in summer and coldest in winter, to San Sebastián, on the Bay of Biscay, and Generalissimo Franco planned to pass the summer in a new seaside home presented to him by the nation near his birthplace at El Ferrol, in Galicia, recently renamed El Ferrol del Caudillo in his honor...
...down on the frontier towns of Port-Bou, La Junquera and Puigcerda. It was only a matter of hours before the Generalissimo would wipe out the only remaining Loyalist territory in northern Spain and be master of the Spanish side of the French-Spanish frontier from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean. A Republican official told correspondents the Rebels' offensive was no longer a military operation, it.was "a police...
...London, stayed a year, wrote his 120,000-word book. In June he left Falmouth with Wilbur Thomas, 25, an American acquaintance who had come from California to sail the last lap with him. Prime experience on a 75-day Atlantic crossing was getting overhauled in the Bay of Biscay by a Spanish Rightist patrol and being jailed overnight as would-be assassins of General Franco...
Rightist Spain last week staged an exhibit of captured, foreign-manufactured guns, tanks and airplanes in the sumptuous Grand Kursaal Theatre of San Sebastian, Spain's beautiful Bay of Biscay summer resort. The exhibit showed brand-new, up-to-date arms, including a 1938 Russian anti-aircraft piece, Swedish anti-tank guns, warplanes of Russian and Czechoslovak manufacture...