Word: canale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front was an attackers' nightmare, composed of bridgeheads within bridgeheads, like a magician's nest of boxes (see map). At first the Germans had held on a line from Heyst, along the Leopold Canal, thence eastward to the suburbs of Antwerp. While one force of Canadians cleared the outskirts of the city, another struck across the Canal east of Aardenburg. The enemy was dug in, in trenches cut into the sides of the dikes, and had to be routed by intense artillery, mortar and small-arms fire, and finally flamethrowers...
...economy going. Just as the last Departmental red tape had been unwound, and the crackdown readied up to the last paragraph, the shrewd Swedes forestalled it. Sweden announced that henceforth all her territorial ports on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea, west to the Falsterbo Canal, would be closed to foreign trade, meaning Germany. Forthwith the State Department quietly filed its snickersnee away, alongside its warnings to Argentina...
...very gratifying to Senator McKellar, except that Bob Reynolds seemed to be running for a touchdown with McKellar's ball. Hastily Senator McKellar rose to explain that he had intended to make a speech later on, expanding his ideas. But when it came to islands around the Panama Canal, he was for taking them all. And it might be, he added, that the U.S. would need some islands farther north. He just wanted to assure the distinguished Senator from North Carolina that the resolution could always be amended to take in more territory...
Senator McKellar: "All the islands in the Atlantic and Pacific near the Panama Canal are included...
Died. Maurice Bunau-Varilla, 88, opportunist publisher of Paris' recently pro-Nazi Le Matin, brother of the late famed engineer, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who helped start the Panama Canal; in Paris. In appreciation of Le Matin's sup port, the invading Nazis ordered large quantities of Synthol, an externally ap plied headache nostrum under Bunau-Varilla's control...