Word: gateways
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...victim to depression-the 2,409-mile Wabash, in the courts since 1931 (the Seaboard has been in since 1930). The Wabash, known as "the road that starts nowhere and ends nowhere," has defaulted four times in 66 years, spent 22 of them in receivership. It lacks seaport and gateway terminals, depends on other lines to feed it about two-thirds of its business. But its straight-sweeping main line from Buffalo to Kansas City avoids the congestion at Chicago and St. Louis. The Wabash was therefore one of the biggest chips in the great consolidation poker game played...
...east are Afghanistan, a hair-triggered zone of worry to British India, and Baluchistan, western gateway to British India itself. Whichever warring side gains a foothold in Iran can jump off into any of these vital sectors...
...would not return to Moscow. In Ankara British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen talked for an hour with Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoĝlu, trying to find out what was up. Turkey would be an important item in a Russo-German deal, and Turkey is a gateway to the Middle East and Suez...
...mile haul from Crete pounded the British defenses. The Italian press, with the jubilance of anticipated revenge, loudly guessed that the all-out Axis attack on Tobruch would come soon. The spearhead of the Axis forces, which fortnight ago squeezed its way through Halfaya ("Hellfire") Pass, the only convenient gateway from Libya to Egypt, would not be able to press on through the gate until the Tobruch threat was eliminated...
...true, for the British who until three weeks ago had little hope of Yugoslavia's fighting had disposed their limited forces further west in the obvious expectation that it would be foolish to try to hold Salonika. Yet the British themselves once called the town, not carelessly, "the gateway of two continents." Possession of the port gave the Nazis their first outlet on the Mediterranean. They could use it to grim effect as a base for planes and submarines...