Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparations for exploiting current and anticipated conquests. Flushed with confidence of an early and complete victory, Nazi economic experts proclaimed the dethroning of gold and announced the future domination of world trade by a centrally controlled Kontinental-Mittel-europäischer-Wirtschaftsraum (Continental-Central-European Economic Space), extending from Gibraltar to the Vistula and from the Norwegian coast to Sicily. With equal assurance, German steel companies offered steel to South American countries at prices considerably lower than U. S. quotations with a cash guarantee of delivery by October, and Hamburg shipping firms advised Ecuadorian cotton mills to have extensive orders...
...told that the Italian Navy is coming to gain sea superiority in these waters. If that is seriously intended, I can only say we shall be delighted to offer Mussolini free, safeguarded passage through the Strait of Gibraltar. . . . There is general curiosity in the British Fleet to find out whether the Italians are up to the level they were in the last war or whether they have fallen...
...sarcastically, did Prime Minister Winston Churchill last week touch on the second decisive issue in Great Britain's war of blockade: keeping the Italian Navy bottled in the Mediterranean. Like a rude punctuation mark after Mr. Churchill's speech came a mine explosion 12,700 miles from Gibraltar, in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. Down went the Canadian-Australasian liner Niagara (13,415 tons) a few hours out of Auckland for Vancouver. All 203 crew and 146 passengers were rescued. This week an Italian submarine was reported sunk by British fire off the East Indies...
South Anchor of the British blockade is that towering prong of limestone, Hades-hot in summer, 2½ miles long and 1,396 ft. high, which points like a torpedo from the Spanish mainland southward across the 15-mile Strait of Gibraltar separating Europe and Africa...
...great shakes as a world producer or a world market, the Mediterranean bulked far larger as a world highway. Through Suez and Gibraltar poured a grimy stream of freighters carrying oil from Iraq, Iran and Russia's Batum on the Black Sea, mercury from Italy and Spain, chrome from Turkey, manganese from the U. S. S. R. Of these the U. S. had to worry only about mercury and manganese. But mercury is still available from Spain, and manganese is plentiful in Cuba, India, Brazil, the African Gold Coast, even (in low-grade form...