Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Axis coast positions in time to cooperate with the southern forces that made the dash westward straight across the desert to Giálo, thence northward toward the shore between Bengazi and Tripoli. By the time the southern unit had reached the oasis at Giálo, the coastal forces were behind schedule, leaving the Giálo unit out on a limb. Though Ritchie took over on Nov. 26, only eight days after the offensive had begun, it was too late to repair the damage...
...highways and desert tracks. Three of them had as their eventual rendezvous a key point on the biggest Axis highway, Sidi Rezegh. The fourth (mechanized New Zealanders) cut north behind Axis forts on the Egyptian border, isolating them from the rear; then split and hurried along the coast, isolating coastal strongholds like Bardia and Gambut. In that operation the Fleet assisted. With control of land highways, with control of the sea, with initial control of the air, the British had the Axis forces in a vacuum...
...world got a new democracy last week and Free France made character for itself in the Middle East. Two months after he freed Syria, Free French General Georges Catroux announced the end of France's Mandate over Lebanon, Syria's coastal neighbor, pronounced it an independent republic with its capital at Beirut...
...overlapped by the accelerated long-range program, which upped production to 100 ships annually, lowered the time limit to five years. Additional new programs call for 200 Liberty ships, 227 Lend-Lease vessels, 541 emergency and standard ships ("The bridge of ships"), 16 Great Lakes ore carriers, many a coastal craft. Soon to be included either in the Maritime Commission or the Navy program are the Sea Otters (TIME, Sept. 29), now undergoing rigorous tests in the Atlantic...
...over an unexplored coast, the scientists' plane reached the limit of its range, was forced to turn back from an inviting horizon. Distant bays and points, they noticed, were reflected in the sky. And because the reflecting moisture layers were higher than the plane, they clearly outlined the coastal pattern well below the flyers' horizon. Though observed before in polar regions, this phenomenon has never until now been trusted by map makers in sketching unseen lands...