Word: iceland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Approved the occupation of Iceland...
...heavy and perhaps eight light cruisers, about 25 destroyers. This was probably more than the British could quickly assemble at any one pressure point. Such a striking force could be used with overwhelming effect against convoys. It could sever British lines to Archangel and the Mediterranean. It might raid Iceland, as the U.S. Fleet had raided the Marshall Islands with devastating effect. It could, as it did last week, draw off most of Britain's effective naval and air strength in one direction-the perfect precondition for invasion...
...ship them water?" demanded a group of foodmen convened last week in Chicago. Their point: the U.S. shipped some 150,000 tons of water to Great Britain last year, still more tons to Iceland, the Philippines and other U.S. outposts. These torrential statistics represent the non-nutritive water content-75 to 95%-of fruits and vegetables...
...best swimmer of his generation at Woolwich, is a fine golfer, a keen shot, a good skier (passed his "second class" tests at 40), an enthusiastic horseman (once whip of the Staff College drag), an experienced salmon-fisherman (in peacetime went all the way to Norway and Iceland to indulge in this pastime). He has had no jungle experience, although the War Office hopes his brief experience on the Indian North West Frontier in 1930-31 will help him. Some fear that his expert withdrawing capacity, as exemplified at Dunkirk, may be just the wrong thing for the Far East...
Greetings (Thurs. 3:30 p.m. CBS) exchanged by radio telephone between Los Angeles aircraft workers and an R.A.F. night fighter pilot, U.S. soldiers in Iceland and British troops in Libya...