Word: cagliari
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...week's end, with a national disaster threatening (and national elections approaching) King Umberto and Premier de Gasperi got the same idea. Each hopped into a plane, raced to Cagliari. Umberto won handily. He watched as locust-fighters deployed their last weapon: 62 drums of gammexane, a sort of new DDT, flown in from England for its first big-scale test. If this failed, nothing would stop the scourge save a miracle such as that related in Exodus 10:19: "And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into...
...reinforced by the enemy by air from the continent, could seriously harass any Allied invasion of Italy. It is a big parallelogram of more than 9,000 square miles, nine-tenths rugged mountains, with so few harbors and such bad communications that its defense rests on isolated strong points. Cagliari is one of the Mediterranean's major naval bases, La Maddalena a minor one. There are several important airfields, such as Elmas and Monserrato, near these bases...
...Secret of the Pyramids," by Professor Georg Steindorff, formerly of the University of Lolpzig; March 13, "Recent Excavations in Syria," by Harald Ingholt, of the University of Aarhus, Denmark; and March 21, "Phoenician and Punic Remains in Sardinia," by Professor Doro Levi, formerly of the University of Cagliari, Sardinia, at present Recorder for the Princeton Excavations at Antioch...
...Italian defensive aircraft. As they returned to the Ark Royal, and reconnaissance planes flew up to check the battle score, Sir James led his ships away from land, down toward Malta and their original course, well knowing what a hornets' nest the action would stir up at the Cagliari air bases...
...made heady reading-most necessary so soon after Taranto. But certain prime facts remained: 1) the Italian Fleet had run from the British, as always; 2) it had failed to intercept another shipment of British war materiel and man power to the Middle East; 3) operating from Naples or Cagliari, it cannot defend Italy's oversea supply line to Africa as well as it could from Taranto before the British got into Crete...