Word: delta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maybe. None but the Jap knows whether he will attack India when the monsoon ends and the steaming, water-clogged delta lands of the Brahmaputra valley begin to dry. But a quick successful thrust at Calcutta could cripple 70% of India's war effort. From the Andaman Islands the Jap could crack by sea and air at the Trincomalee naval base in Ceylon, at Madras and at Calcutta...
Britain's soldiers stood in their classic and indomitable position: with their backs against the wall. West of Suez there was no other place to make a stand. Behind them was Cairo, capital of Egypt; the delta of the Nile, a great plain as large as Vermont, crisscrossed with irrigation canals; Alexandria, last major British naval base in the eastern Mediterranean. All that stood between Rommel and Suez was General Sir Harold (Rupert Leofric George) Alexander's Eighth Army. If it failed, then, in the words of one U.S. Army official last week, "God help...
...blues singers of Arkansas, Georgia, etc. would be forced to constitute the Balkan Union of N.A. This state should not be allowed to control the Mississippi delta, nor have access to the Atlantic seaboard. For their unimportant trade, Pensacola, to be renamed Salonika, will do as their only port...
...dropped to 75?. Old Man Towne hung on: "Hit's wuth a dollar and I aim to git a dollar." He mortgaged his crop, his next year's crop, his 20,000 acres of lien-free land. Next year the Delta went broke. Towne's banker wired that he would have to sell. Towne wired back "NO." "I ain't aiming to sell hit fer less'n hit's wuth," he said. "But," said the banker, "all it's worth is what the market says it is." "The market is them New York...
Authentic Jellybean. Mrs. Towne and her daughters came back. Mrs. Towne was "overflowing with misinterpreted Continental idioms, bad hotel French, and a lofty disdain for everything American." Elaine got herself pregnant, and half the young sports in the Delta made up a $10,000 purse for the salesman who married her off their hands. Van, as viciously authentic a jellybean* as has ever seen print, headed faster & faster toward jail. Old Man Towne bought a ball team so he could watch Sunday baseball, won $10,000 bets on game after game...