Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gatun Lake, in the Panama Canal Zone, floats a little fleet of motorboats. They are blue-grey, stubby, old-so old, some of them, that they are kept lake-worthy mainly by the heroic ingenuity of their soldier crews. The soldiers who run the boats call them the third-ocean fleet. They are the supply boats of one of the finest, least-known outfits in the U.S. Army: the Panama Coast Artillery Command...
...what Germany would get in return-which made the "easements" seem ominous. The London Times guessed that Vichy would let Germany use railways leading to Spain and airports in French-mandated Syria, next door to Axis-desired Iraq and a handy jumping-off place for attacks on the Suez Canal...
...named William Goodfellow, who passed across the U.S. on his way to Britain. William Goodfellow, who is managing director of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., of Auckland, stated that "about" 24 out of a fleet of 60 refrigerator ships which had plied from New Zealand to Britain via the Panama Canal had been sunk. Said Dairyman Goodfellow: "There are several million carcasses of mutton and lamb [in New Zealand warehouses] awaiting shipment. We also have an excess of 20,000 tons of butter-with a new season's make coming on." The immediate need: 20 refrigerator ships. If Dairyman Goodfellow...
...either by storming or by incapacitation due to bombing, the British position in the eastern Mediterranean would be pretty nearly untenable. The British would then have no practicable advance naval bases, and German bombers would have almost a semicircle of air bases within easy striking distance of the Suez Canal and of Alexandria, the last intact fleet base. General Sir Archibald Wavell's lines of communication from Egypt down to the Red Sea and westward along the Mediterranean would be subject to merciless attack from only 500 miles away...
Last week, even while Crete still functioned for the British, the Nazi noose seemed to be tightening: twice German bombers visited the Suez Canal area, damaging the railways by which both U.S. and British war materials had been moving up to Egypt. Nevertheless the British, with not much but courage of the Freyberg kind to go on, were still doing a valorous defensive job throughout the theater...