Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army wheeled right, into position in the Ardennes Mountains. They settled down at Arlon near the Luxembourg border before the Germans got there. The British Expeditionary Force, 200,000 strong and placed in the centre, rolled smoothly out of the Sambre Valley, heading northeast for Liege and the Albert Canal which its advanced forces reached, festooned with flowers from Belgium's women, within 48 hours. The French I Army on the left made for the Albert Canal. The French VII Army, mechanized, whirred up the West Flanders highways through Antwerp to Dutch Breda. The advanced forces of all reached...
Retreat In Belgium. The quick fall of Eben Emael fortress, great new strongpoint of the Liege corner, was a heavy blow, whether brought about by a "secret weapon" (see p. 28) or sheer power. Three bridges across the Albert Canal went with it, one when an officer about to order the bridge's destruction was killed by a bomb and his successor hesitated to act. Another Belgian officer darted back over another captured bridge and blew himself up with it. Through these holes the Germans poured before the mass of the Allied force could reach the prepared outer defenses...
...Belgian border at 5:30 a.m. at Gem-menich, only 15 miles from Vise, where they first entered in 1914. Furious air-bombing ahead of their mechanized advance made up for any lack of surprise. They overwhelmed the key fortress of Eben Emael, commanding the junction of the Albert Canal and the Meuse River. Its commandant and 1,000 men surrendered within a few hours, paralyzed by "nerve gas" or some other secret German weapon. But unlike 1914, Belgium was not wholly unprepared this time. And even more than then, she was heartened to resist. In his war proclamation, King...
Eleanor Roosevelt accepted chairmanship of the committee to distribute the fund. Last week, Mrs. Fisher's Children's Crusade was on the march in 250,000 schools throughout the U. S., and in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone. Into 1,000,000 mite boxes children dropped one penny for each year of their age. In New York City's Bronx, 150 moppets (aged five to 16) in the Colored Orphan Asylum raised $3.50 by giving up their Sunday dinner ration of ice cream, though the sacrifice made crusaders quiver (see cut). Said President Roosevelt reassuringly: "Every...
...together to form Europe's second longest river (the Volga is longer), which flows 1,750 miles across central and southeastern Europe to pour its waters into the Black Sea north of Constantsa. The Danube drains 320,200 square miles, has 300 tributaries; with the Rhine and the canal joining the two (now being improved at a cost of $300,000,000) it forms a waterway across Europe...