Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall of the store crack, disintegrate, crash on the heads of his family. In nearby El Centro, a fire wall tumbled down on Clifford Moore. All through rich Imperial Valley, one night last week, ran the earthquake's shivers. They shook down buildings, cracked open the irrigation canal that carries the Valley's water, let precious water flow out over Mexico. Damage: more than $2,500,000. Dead: Mrs. Mullings and her children, Clifford Moore, four others...
...according to plan. Attack has always appealed to the German mind. And now they had such an attack! Their first push had already driven straight across Holland to Rotterdam. Before the Allied Armies rushing northward from the French border had time to reach prepared Belgian positions along the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liége, a swift and fierce German drive cracked the Liége defenses the second day. *Headquarters watched the progress of German columns up the Meuse Valley towards Namur and westward towards Louvain...
...troops and a division of Ardennes Chasseurs (guerrilla forest fighters). Another 480,000 men with some training were mobilized, though there was fighting equipment for only about 130,000 of these. Instead of a trench-furrowed valley, Belgium's defense line now was the 250-foot-wide Albert Canal running from Liege northwest to Antwerp, with reinforced concrete blockhouses and pillboxes along its inner bank; with open fields on the far bank to expose an invader; with a flooding system to bog down those fields; with tank traps and barriers, mined highways and bridges...
Eben Emael is ten miles north of Liege at a deep cut through the St. Peter's hills where the Albert Canal leads out of the River Meuse. The fort, modern and ex pensive, is built into the side...
...soldiers stagger and fall, their muscular coordination anesthetized as by "twilight sleep." Fuhrer Hitler last weekend personally handed the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to Lieut. Witzig and seven other flying officers for their "incomparable daring" in taking Eben Emael and certain bridges over the Albert Canal. He promoted Lieut. Witzig to captain. To the inventors of the new Angriffsmittel went greater tribute: real alarm among the Allies lest this unknown new weapon prove a key to unlock the Maginot Line...