Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bronx Cheer. Next day in Palestine a dozen engagements between Jews and Arabs were fought. At El Kabri on the north coastal plain 250 Arabs ambushed a Jewish convoy, killed over 40. In another engagement a mile and a half from Bethlehem, 3,000 Arabs attacked another convoy, killed a score of Jews in a 30-hour battle. Both attacks occurred in areas which would have gone to the Arabs under the partition plan. The ambushed Jewish convoys had been carrying badly-needed supplies to isolated Zionist communities...
...coastal jungle of Vera Cruz state, bulldozers chewed their way last week through rain forests and matted vines. They were clearing a path across the waist of Mexico for an 800-mile-long fence. Its purpose: to check the northward spread of aftosa (foot-&-mouth disease), which had already infected about one-sixth of Mexico's 13 million head of cattle and brought nightmares to Texas ranchers...
...armed force to provide.) Finally, one day last week, with only 96 more to Partition Day, the Security Council began discussions. There was no saying how long discussions would take. In Damascus, Arabs hinted that they would strike while U.N. was still talking, and along Palestine's coastal plain, Jewish citrus exporters saw confirming activity: Arab growers were unseasonably shipping out oranges of a type which will not ripen until April...
Even California was nipped. A heavy frost destroyed the coastal squash crop. In the back-country hills of Southern California, temperatures fell low enough to put icicles on avocado and citrus groves. Citrus crops were even harder hit by a continuing drought, now so severe that some communities were rationing water...
...remedy for collisions between R.A.F. planes and birds, which cost ?20,000 in repairs last year. It hired a Shropshire falconer to set his birds on plovers and rooks at one airfield. The falcons proved a "conditional success," are now being tried out on sea gulls at R.A.F. coastal stations...