Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difference between Rotterdam on May 14, and all large British cities last week was that the latter were heavily ringed with well-manned, well-munitioned anti-aircraft batteries. On the other hand, Germany was prepared to send bombers in flights of 540 instead of 54, if needed, to destroy London, Liverpool, Hull, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, etc., simultaneously, at whatever expenditure of her own lives might be necessary to annihilate British lives. Prospects were that the 10,000 or 15.000 attackers Germany was prepared to send and spend might well knock out Britain's 7,000 (at most, all types...
...Condottieri class-the Bartolomeo Colleoni and the Giovanni delle Bande Nere.* These ships can make 38 knots to the Sydney'?, 32.5. They have the same fire power (eight 6-inch guns each) but the Italians are lightly armored, designed especially to catch and destroy destroyers. Two British destroyers spotted them first and flashed word to the Sydney, which was coming down from the north, inconspicuous in her light grey-blue battle paint, among the small islands sprinkled between Crete and the Greek mainland...
...Panama Canal can be attacked in three general ways: 1) enemy saboteurs might block its locks or destroy its gates by blowing up a shipful of explosives on an apparently peaceful transit of the Ditch; 2) bombers launched from an enemy carrier at sea might succeed in a surprise raid in smashing lock machinery or breaching the great dam of Gatun Lake, thereby draining the Canal of water; 3) having gained a foothold in the Caribbean area, an enemy might go about systematic destruction of the Canal with large-scale attacks...
...country it is believed that those who are falling over themselves in their zeal to criticize him are either selfishly inspired or victims of impractical "idealism" and propaganda. We believe that a policy which results in extending war to the whole world will not save Democracy but destroy it forever...
...show their news source is accurate" or lose their licenses on July 1. B. U. P. was quietly reinstated a few days later. Meanwhile, Transradio's President Herbert Samuel Moore stormed up to Ottawa, angrily claiming there was a plot afoot by "selfish publishing and monopolistic interests ... to destroy independent news services throughout the Dominion." Last week CBC (which sits in judgment on all Canadian broadcasters) reconsidered, agreed to let Transradio Press continue indefinitely. But CBC still frowns on sponsored news, announced that it will work out a new plan for Dominion stations, outlawing commercial newscasts altogether. Under this...