Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than either of these-that began in August 1937, when 30,000,000 Chinese left Canton, Hangkow, Tientsin, the cities along the coast and the villages near the invader. They moved from the fertile country of the northeast-10,000,000 of them-and from the southern and central coastal provinces-20,000,000 more. They walked 800 miles and more across the canyoned plateaus and jagged mountains and the plains, or poled sampans up the rivers when the tugs broke down, moved 77 colleges and universities inland and the machinery for 472 factories, to build a new China...
...individual careers will interlock with a nourishing, trading, building, postwar career for the nation. They are talking of the roads that must be built, of the 100,000 miles of railroads New China will need. They know what they want after the war. To go home. Back to the coastal cities, back to good coastal meat and fruit with their rice, to good schools for their children, to business, low prices, trade...
...harassed the air transport lines. Allied bombers from Malta and the African mainland have incessantly bombed Axis ports, transshipment points and railroads in Italy, Sicily and on the receiving end in Tunisia. Since they lost Tripoli, Rommel's forces in southern Tunisia have been supplied by the overworked coastal railroad between Bizerte and Gabes, and this too has often been bombed. But Allied attacks have neither closed the ports nor cut the coastal railways and air and sea lanes; it has only made Axis supply expensive...
Supplies for the Eighth Army on the southern front have to be shipped from Britain, the U.S. and Canada around the tip of South Africa, through the Red Sea and Suez to Alexandria (see map). A desert railroad and coastal shipping, now almost free of Axis air attack in the eastern Mediterranean, move material from Alexandria to Bengasi. At Bengasi supplies are picked up and transported by a fast fleet of more than 100,000 motor lorries,* which move some 2,400 tons a day along a 600-mile ribbon of road across Libya to Tripoli. To keep the lorries...
...Axis' southern position was guarded by the pillbox fortifications of the Mareth Line, built by the French atop high, naturally defensible escarpments. But the south appeared to be a likelier route for an Allied plunge into the coastal flatlands. The weather was wet, but the footing was better over sandy soil. And in the Allies' southern sector were the battle-smart veterans of the seasoned Eighth Army. With a strong show of artillery and tanks, Rommel tried to delay them. They edged...