Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R.A.F. Coastal Command believed at first that the gremlins climbed aboard in mid-air from the wings of sea gulls. It is generally believed now, however, that the gremlins have wings on their shoulders, but, if so, the wings are invisible in photographs (see cut). One school of thought favors vertical-lift propellers on each shoulder. The Coastal Command learned that gremlins love to punch holes in pontoons, jab pilots in the back when they are too busy to scratch, or drink up all the gasoline except just enough to make a landing...
...into the Grozny region, only 100 miles from the Caspian. Thus far they had followed a railway paralleling the Greater Caucasus range, which towers east to west between the Caspian and Black Seas. Marshal Fedor von Bock was apparently taking the classic invasion route, by way of the Caspian coastal plain to Baku. There were only three other routes, all difficult. One was the narrow Black Sea coast, where the mountains almost tumble into the sea. The second was the Georgian Military Road, twisting up through narrow defiles and a pass 7,823 feet high before it falls southward...
...Army occupies 212 U.S. hotels, a total of 30,000-odd rooms, 2% of all American hotel rooms. Its biggest hotel patronage is coastal: 150 hotels at Miami Beach, 29 at Atlantic City. Its biggest single concentration: in Chicago's 3,000-room Stevens (world's biggest hotel). More will be occupied...
...London Sunday Times that it would be a tragedy to squander American lives in U.S. heavy bombers over Germany-either by day or by night. The New York Times quoted him, repeated his suggestion that the U.S. craft-Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24s-be assigned to coastal duty. The New York Herald Tribune got the same sentiment from R.A.F. men. News services picked up the British contention, broadcast it far & wide...
...they decreased, he did not say-and perhaps did not wholly know. But U.S. naval censors at last permitted the press to report one of the reasons for the drop, in one area where sinkings had been appallingly high. The reason: the Navy was convoying coastal shipping in the Western Atlantic, from Maine to Florida...