Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known. Ostensibly they were an extension of the North Atlantic blockade, which stretches to Iceland. They were there to prevent Germany from getting seaborne supplies from northern Russia. Perhaps also they would interfere with future shipments of Swedish and Norwegian iron ore to Germany through Norway's coastal waters, and prevent German submarines from using Murmansk as a base, or Russian submarines from going to help the Germans. Perhaps-though this was not yet demonstrable-they were the advance guard for Allied supplies or even an Allied expeditionary force for beleaguered Finland. The Papal daily Osservatore Romano in Vatican...
...only railroad of any size owned and operated by the U. S. Government* is the Alaska Railroad, 500 miles long, finished in 1923, running from coastal Seward to the biggest city in Alaska's interior, gold-mining Fairbanks (pop. 2,101). A dour, 69-year-old, spectacled, Republican Swede named Otto Frederick Ohlson is its top man. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who has jurisdiction over A. R. R., does not oust Ohlson from his $14,500 job because in eleven years Republican Ohlson has reduced its annual operating deficit from $1,000,000 to the break-even...
...work straight hours repairing plumbing. The Rio Grande Valley was hard hit: half the citrus crop near Brownsville was still on the trees, and Brownsville, at 29°, was colder than Nome, Alaska at 33°; 75% of the tomato crop was believed killed; beets and cabbages in the coastal bend near Corpus Christi were damaged. Estimated value of endangered fruit...
...stopping his ship when the British cruiser fired a shot across his bows. Japan promised to "take steps" against Britain and got around to discouraging Germans from traveling on Japanese ships. As if deliberately trying to remove the last vestige of consistency, a Japanese cruiser stopped a British coastal steamer, asked her captain if he had heard of the Asama incident, detained him 15 hours on no other pretext than that...
...famed, even among Navy men, for temperance of expression. And his effort to expand the Fleet's air arm into an autonomous naval air force on land and sea, is not likely to prevail over the dynamics of the man in charge of R. A. F.'s Coastal Command: bald, craggy-browed Air Marshal Sir Frederick William ("Ginger") Bowhill. This fearsome character, whose duty it is to protect British ports and shipping and to attack the enemy in, under and over the sea by loosing fierce falcons from Britain's headlands, is as jealously proud...