Word: funneled
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...hear it: they liked Chep, too. Presidents and mayors showered him with banquets and tropical rhetoric. Chep responded by promising to learn Spanish in time to welcome them all to his city. New Orleans and its kinetic new mayor were off to a fast start in the competition to funnel postwar commerce and culture between the Americas...
Homeless veterans got a mite of help last week in their house hunting. The Civilian Production Administration slapped a priorities system on building materials, to start Jan. 15. In 1946 it hopes to funnel them into some 400,000 new homes for veterans costing $10,000 and less...
...materials from North China, Manchuria and Korea. U.S. analysts concluded last week that Japan now had only a single unbroken line of communication with the mainland -the one from northeastern Korean ports, across the Sea of Japan, to small ports on the northwest coast of Honshu. The great funnel through which the lifeblood of imports was once transfused into Japan was already fouled with wrecked ships sunk by U.S. forces...
...were authority for the statement that U.S. submarines had begun to operate in the Sea of Japan. Whether or not that was true, the subs had helped clear the South China Sea of enemy shipping and presumably would be used farther north. Japanese harbors near the neck of the funnel had felt the weight of blows from U.S. aircraft carriers' planes. But the most continuously effective weapon for the blockade of Japan was the Navy's land-based aviation...
Holding the Funnels. The Ardennes bulge dwindled to a strip which reached only twelve miles into Belgium at the widest point, east of Houffalize. The Germans evacuated their funnel at Houffalize, which had served its purpose, but seemed determined to hold the funnel at Saint-Vith for a few days longer. Clearing weather enabled Allied tactical pilots to take a last crack at German vehicles, of which they destroyed more than 1,000. On the south, General Patton's onrushing Third Army came within range of German guns firing from the casemates of the Westwall itself...