Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mistress of the seas. Against seemingly heavy odds, she had blown to bits Britain's largest warship, the 42,100-ton Hood; fought off one of Britain's newest and mightiest, the Prince of Wales. The fight lasted only 300 seconds; took place last Saturday morning in Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland...
Shortly before Hitler attacked Poland, Military Expert Reynolds prophesied flatly: "Of course there'll be no war." Day before the Germans invaded Denmark and Norway, he declared that the Scandinavian countries were going to keep...
...ocean trade routes. Thanks to Hog Island's mass production of freighters, the U.S. hoped to become a seafaring nation after World War I, but lost standing quickly in the 1920s to nations whose young men took to sea as naturally as young Americans took to automobiles: England, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands. Despite subsidies totaling $3,500,000,000 in the last quarter century, U.S. ship lines-with wages and operating costs higher than their foreign competitors-rarely made money...
...Post-war Germany has been widely studied and discussed by German technologists and business men," said Flynn. "Hitler probably intends to reign over the old German and Austrian empires, and the channel coasts of Denmark, Holland and Belgium. He plans to strip England of her important colonies, and let her survive as best she can with minor dependents. England, herself, would be a liability, and Hitler would be foolish to include her in his territory...
...been undeniably brilliant. Before the Yugoslavs had even been able to take battle stations, the Nazis had virtually completed the first phase of Blitzkrieg-the wild, daring dash for centers of communication and command. And they had done this just as fast as if the terrain were flat as Denmark. But Dusan Simovitch had been in tight spots before...