Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Builders. The huge destroyer program is being handled by veteran naval shipbuilders like Bethlehem, Federal (U.S. Steel subsidiary) and Maine's crackerjack Bath Iron Works. Most PC subchaser contracts are held by inland builders like Dravo Corp. in Pittsburgh (where fighting ships are being built for the first time since the War of 1812), and Michigan's DeFoe Shipbuilding. To swing the new & vital destroyer-escort program the Navy picked Bethlehem Steel's reliable yard at Hingham, Mass., and Brown Shipbuilding, a new yard at Houston...
Nazis' second fortress at Millerovo. This week Moscow announced another victory: the long siege of Leningrad was in a fair way to be lifted; Russian troops had captured the pivotal, fortified city of Schlüsselburg, some 25 miles to the east, where the Germans based their inland line around the great Baltic port. From the Baltic to the dark and bloody ground of the Caucasus, the German Wehrmacht was in retreat...
Under the new treaties, and others expected to follow, China will have no treaty ports (Hong Kong, however, is to remain British), no foreign judicial systems, no British ships in inland waters and coastwise trade. Then when victory over Japan is won Chinese destiny will rest in the hands of Chinese leaders...
There he could make a stand behind the Mareth Line, the "Little Maginot" of pillboxes and cement forts strung along the hills in southern Tunisia from the Gulf of Gabès 20 miles inland. There were already reports of Axis troops from Tripolitania hastening into Tunisia. There was even a report (from Berlin) that Rommel himself had left Tripolitania to go "elsewhere on another job." The report obviously was put out to save the fox's face, now that he had lost his tail. But it might be true. Rommel might have gone to Tunisia...
...battle of the jungle was being waged with modern weapons. Health stations had been set up far inland. More than 1,500 men were working in the Special Public Health Service, the Government organization set up to protect the workers' health. Two million tablets of atabrin had already been distributed to combat malaria. Notices telling how to guard against the jungle's dangers were being tacked on trees in the farthest jungle land by men who took small supply boats up the inland waterways. The Health Service last week reported that it was prepared to take care...