Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both sides were obliged to make a try. Suez was the stake. The British, who realized that they had come within an ace of losing the canal in June, before Hitler turned back to Russia, were going to try to revise the scenario from here in. They were busy at the outposts. Iraq and Iran would now at least be buffers. Britain's Middle Eastern Commander in Chief General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck flew to Cyprus, where he declared himself well satisfied with defenses, particularly air fields, which had been rushed into being to prevent a Crete repeat...
...Caribbean bases are vital to U.S. defense in both oceans. While the Caribbean islands are Andy Andrews' ramparts, his citadel is The Ditch. For within their protective arc lies the Panama Canal-key to U.S. strategy in the Atlantic and the Pacific, certain target of any invader. Example: a sudden blow at the Canal from the Atlantic side when a big part of the U.S. Fleet is in the Atlantic-as it is nowadays-might prevent the rapid reinforcement of naval forces remaining in the Pacific...
...Martinique also lies in the very center of the chain of islands known as the Lesser Antilles, which guard the Caribbean-halfway between U.S. bases on Puerto Rico and Trinidad on one of the direct routes from Europe to the Panama Canal...
Fishermen. Off Palm Beach, Fla., a 426-lb. blue marlin simultaneously bit on the hooks of two fishing ministers. At Key West a motorist drove into a canal, trapped two snappers inside...
...oppose including the Seaway in an omnibus appropriation bill. This was the signal the wolves were waiting for; the door to the icebox was flung open. All of the Presidentially refrigerated cuts of pork were dragged from the hooks, even the long-dead $197,000,000 Florida Ship Canal. The smell of pork was rich over the Capitol...