Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These tropical islands in the South Seas motorized their artillery, partly motorized their infantry, improved their coastal batteries, equipped and trained a parachute corps, created fire-fighting brigades, barbed-wired their airfields, built air-raid shelters. They have two cruisers, four (possibly six) destroyers, twelve submarines, other small vessels, plus what Netherlands Navy ships escaped from the home country...
Gauleiter Josef Terboven announced that Norway was hereafter in a "state of emergency." This decree empowered him to pass sentences of death "to preserve public order." All radios in the coastal regions nearest Britain were ordered delivered to the German authorities. Herr Terboven rumbled ominously that Norway had reached a "decisive phase...
...ceiling, great enough speed and sure enough armament to make any fighter useless-Air Marshal Peirse set "interpretive experts" to work plotting the exact location of ships, number of planes necessary for a thorough job, other mechanical details. Then Sir Richard sat down with his staff and Fighter and Coastal Command liaison officers to discuss tactics: time and place of rendezvous, level of attack, number of squadrons, types of planes, nature of escort...
Iceland has half a dozen possible airfields, and more could be made on the flat south-coastal plains-if there are planes to put on them. Reykjavik is the only good harbor; though lots of little boats can huddle in the fiords by the herring ports on the north shore...
...after Calvin Coolidge signed the bill authorizing Boulder Dam in 1928, eleven coastal cities (later 13) set up the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. They voted a $220,000,000 bond issue, and in 1932 got RFC to help them sell the bonds. With a PWA loan, they started work on the aqueduct, which runs from Parker Dam, 155 miles south of Boulder Dam, to Lake Mathews, near Riverside. With the world's deepest dam foundation (233 feet under the river bed), Parker Dam stores water for the whole District system...