Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Attorney General Francis Biddle marked off 88 coastal areas from which all enemy aliens will be evacuated by Feb. 24. Forbidden territory so far includes San Francisco's waterfront, where 1,500 alien fishermen keep their boats; all lighthouses, radio and power stations, dams, airports, defense plants; 17 truck-farming districts where Japs for years have grown winter fruits and vegetables for U.S.tables...
...Msus in the desert Rommel's armored columns had waited two days for supplies, then knifed northwest to Bengasi. As they came to the coastal plain the German advance forked into a trident. One prong struck the main road north and east of Bengasi. The other two speared in south of the city...
...island, 27 miles long and 14 miles wide, is separated from the giraffe-like neck of the Malay Peninsula and the oncoming Jap by the mile-wide Strait of Johore. Around the big island on the sea side are scores of tiny islands, on most of which lie camouflaged coastal artillery positions...
...Battle of the Atlantic was awesomely close to the U.S. coast, and between the first and second waves of coastal sinkings the U.S. Navy indicated that the German Navy might pay a first-rate price for its second-choice attack. Reassuringly tough and sufficiently broad to keep the enemy guessing was the Navy's announcement...
Until Globe American submitted its plans, there was no standard U.S. lifeboat; until it began assembly-line production, lifeboats were built at small, coastal shipyards, usually of wood. Into each of Globe American's boats goes one and a half tons of sheet steel. Heavier than wood, less buoyant, air tanks and kapok nevertheless make Globe boats unsinkable...