Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coast of Texas the sea began to boil. The water level in the Houston Ship Channel rose more than seven feet. The roads leading from the exposed coastal towns were jammed with refugees. At Port Arthur 500 home guards patrolled the highways and the levees. At Houston defense guards patrolled the city by automobile; 2,700 more citizens volunteered. Torrential rains fell; closed windows in the editorial office of the Houston Post could not keep out the rain; there was half an inch of water on the floor. Rice farmers along the Texas coast watched the tender stalks-the biggest...
...fleet. At the Navy's LTA station at Lakehurst, N.J., he had a new 400,000-cu.-ft. blimp* called K3. It was the first new nonrigid airship Lakehurst had had in many a moon. After trial flights, K-3 will be ready for coastal patrol, the first of 48 blimps authorized by Congress, in a sudden appreciation of LTA. It was high time, thought Captain Rosendahl. In Lakehurst's dwindling complement were three aging tactical blimps (including two Army castoffs), one experimental ship and four others good only for training airship crews...
Evacuating Foochow the Japanese declared that, having destroyed the Foochow supply route into China's interior, they need no longer pin troops there. This was nonsense. Even the Japanese must have known that they had not wiped from the minds of the coastal men the memory of tricky paths to the interior...
From the military point of view, despite the clamor, there seemed little that Britain could do to ease the weight of the Nazi campaign on Russia. The best that military men in London could suggest last week were distracting coastal raids on the Continent, the possibility of an offensive in Libya, where, it seemed likely, an Axis campaign was brewing already...
...wells of Borneo were prepared for instant destruction, and the Dutch have sworn to destroy them if need be. Java, citadel of the Indies defense, held the bulk of an Army of 100,000 (native and European), the bulk of the new Air Force, old but fixed coastal defenses, an arsenal. And Sumatra was just as tough, with one half sheltered by Malaya, the other half lying in the strategic domain of the mighty fortress of Singapore...