Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lombardo, Gibraltar of the dance bandsmen, became an airline operator for Manhattan commuters, promised that his Long Island Airlines (4 Grumman Widgeons) would run 19 round trips a day for the hurried & well-heeled, beginning next week...
Plato started it all, according to De Camp, by describing in his Dialogues a marvelous country beyond the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar and Ceuta). Life was beautiful in Atlantis, said Plato, but an earthquake had foundered the continent, leaving only shoals to mark its site...
Plato may have got his idea of a lost civilization from the Minoan Empire in Crete, which collapsed about 1400 B.C. Or he may have heard about Tarshish (Tartessos), a thriving city outside Gibraltar which sent "gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks" to the lush court of King Solomon...
...Gibraltar, Britain's proud Home Fleet, led by H.M.S. Nelson, was about to hold full-scale battle exercises...
...final plunge, he pleaded, Spain was too poor and unprepared. Germany must first send more wheat to feed the hungry Spaniards and guns to reduce Gibraltar. When the Axis crashed, he cleared from his desk in El Prado the autographed portraits of Hitler and Mussolini. He orated: "Falangism is not fascism . . . [but] a special mode of life...