Word: bottlenecked
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...that was not the immediate purpose of "Jock" McCain's strikes. He was beating down enemy air power on a line from Japan through the Ryukyu Islands to the Formosa Strait - bottleneck in enemy communications to points south, notably the Philippines. His planes harried air fields on either side of the 95-mile passage, on Formosa and in China, to prevent reinforcement of the battered Jap air fleets on Luzon, and to keep Formosa-based aircraft from attacking U.S. ships off Luzon...
...Antwerp. There some 7,000 bitter-ending Germans held fast: they had to be eliminated before the Allies could send ships in to the port. By land Walcheren could be reached only by a causeway from the pipe-shaped peninsula of South Beveland, but the Germans were holding that bottleneck with murderous fire. The Allied solution: a seaborne attack...
...Bottleneck. One natural defense remained. A scant 15 miles south of the Kwangsi border, before which the Japs were poised, is the Hwangshaho defile, where river, railroad and highway all pass through a gap five miles wide and eight miles long. Here, if anywhere, a stand must be made. But it must be made with lesh against machines. Cabled TIME'S Correspondent Teddy White: "Kwangsi's one resource, its one hope of resistance, now lies in marshaling a people's army such as helped to stop the Japanese in their first penetration of this province four years...
...madman's hopeless situation: there was no escape. But he was in a seagirt fort, approached only over a narrow bottleneck of land. The Americans had battled past Saint-Malo's ancient walls and towers, past modern pillboxes to this last fort, set 50 feet deep in the granite, crisscrossed with underground tunnels...
...make his final sprint." The synthetic production program has succeeded, he said, and "our production capacity is now so great that we have been able to lend some synthetic rubber manufacturing facilities to provide extra quantities of high-octane gasoline. . . ." Then he pointed his finger at the present bottleneck: the lack of manpower and equipment in making heavy-duty tires...