Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British have to get oil from Venezuela or around the Cape of Good Hope (11,000 miles). In 17 States of the U.S., whose entire civilian economy had been oil-motivated for 30 years, oil is rationed. That alone suffices to tell Americans that the winning of the war has not begun, and that its losing has gone on apace...
...main importance of the new network is that it opens a vast field of listeners to U.S. broadcasts. From Mexicali to Cape Horn there are roughly about three and a half million receiving sets, only half of which can pick up short wave. In the past, listeners to the shortwave sets received all the attention of Axis and U.S. broadcasts. Now CBS programs reach South American listeners regularly over their own stations (La Cadena has 46 long-wave, 30 short-wave outlets in Latin America). Each station is contract-bound to present at least one hour of network programs daily...
...Hordes of officials and quasi-officials demanded X cards (entitling them to all the gas they wanted). A resident of Barnstable, Cape Cod purpled with rage when offered an A card, turned the card down and stalked...
...daylight gives Nazi aircraft more time for reconnaissance. The southward drift of polar ice pinches the convoy channel dangerously narrow. Last week Germany claimed that the Luftwaffe had sunk a U.S. cruiser of the 9,100-ton Pensacola class and a U.S. destroyer, somewhere between Norway's North Cape and Spitsbergen, had scored hits on two more U.S. destroyers. Another Nazi news-bomb announced the sinking of a 2,000-ton merchant vessel and an icebreaker in a Spitsbergen fjord...
...Japan is immeasurably more than an enemy in the Pacific; it is much more than the ally of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini." To make his point graphic, Kiralfy triangulates the eastern hemisphere. The apex he puts at Cape St. Vincent in Portugal; the base runs from Singapore to Bering Strait (see cut}. "The Japanese islands are," he says, "and for all time must remain geographically in strategic domination of the vital base line of the Eurasian Triangle." "It is imperative," he insists, "that this Eurasian Triangle be seen for what it really is-a bomb of sufficient power...