Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy of 2,000 men, manning two escort ships, five gunboats, an armed transport and six coast-guard ships. Air Force: 116 men, 16 planes. The Dominican Republic's Army, trained by the U. S. Army and Marines, numbers 3,300 men; its Navy consists of four coastal patrol boats and a transport. Haiti has an armed constabulary (Garde d'Haiti) of 2,494 men with U. S. advisers. She has two coastal patrol ships and no Air Force...
...last week well-plucked Condor turned amphibian. Taking to the water, it signed a contract with Snapp Navigation Co. of Brazil for service up the Amazon. The new river line will connect Condor's coastal route to its line running up along the Bolivian-Brazilian frontier, will give its systems in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru access to an Atlantic outlet. If President Vargas' three-week-old promise of domestic colonization and agricultural development in the Amazon goes through, Condor will have a wedge into the heart of Brazil's richest territory...
...Coastal Colleges in both the West and the East have responded with considerable enthusiasm, while in the middle West and the South strong isolationism have generally thwarthed the committee's efforts. Nonetheless, in almost all universities contacted some form of defense organization favoring "full aid" has taken root...
...master plan" of Chief of Air Staff Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal. As head of the Bomber Command, before his new appointment fortnight ago, he had been puncturing Hitler's boasts of German invulnerability with a threefold purpose: 1) to smash production and disrupt communications; 2) to render coastal ports useless as invasion springboards; 3) to crack German morale...
Striking at Nazi troop and supply movements, the R. A. F. swooped over the German-held French port of Lorient, shattering two transports and killing 3,000 Nazi soldiers. Off Trondheim, Blenheim bombers of the Coastal Command fired a German supply ship, set two more ablaze in the North...