Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hennecke had "knocked hell out of the port," but insisted it was "in better shape than I expected." But he emphasized that Cherbourg had been mainly a passenger port, received only a negligible amount of freight (155,000 tons in 1938, contrasted with 1,300,000 for the little canal port, Caen), could not be compared with Naples. Now it was up to the rebuilders to step up its capacity...
...many a secret Commando raid, conferred with the commanding general of the British Sixth Airborne Division somewhere in southern England. One detachment of the Sixth's parachute and glider troops was to carry out the desperate mission of seizing key bridges over the River Orne and the Caen Canal. They were to hold them against German counterattack until Lovat's Commando-men could fight their way in overland. The general explained...
...Payoff. At exactly 12:17½ a tall, slim officer with a rifle slung over one shoulder scrambled up the bank of the Caen Canal. Behind him came a sweating, 21-year-old Glasgow piper, behind the piper a long line of grim-bereted Commando troops. The paratroop brigadier came up to shake Lord Lovat's hand. Their greeting was brief and British...
...shorter of demand than usual. Clubs and study groups swamped the Moscow Lecture Bureau with requests for Second Front speakers. More than one comrade puzzled over the map of France in the British Embassy's publication, Britanski Soyusnik (British Ally). On it the English Channel appeared as "Angliski Canal." Russians, accustomed to the French "La Manche,"asked: "When did the English build the canal between themselves and France...
Excepting Costa Rica (and Panama, overshadowed by the Canal Zone), Central America has long been dictator territory. Until recently the tyrants of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador guarded each other's frontiers, hunted each other's refugees. When the upset in El Salvador broke their united front last week, the three remaining dictators must have readied their firing squads...