Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most observers felt last week that winter weather and Leftist knowledge of his plans had forced El Caudillo to drop a major offensive on the Aragon Front against Barcelona, that the Rightist offensive when it comes will much more likely be along the Mediterranean coast in the south: first on Almeria, then Valencia, then Barcelona...
...other transport. Designer Martin already has on his drawing boards plans of a 118,000-lb. ocean transport, which will carry 100 passengers, sleep 66. Reported purchaser: American Export Air Line's, prospective affiliate of American Export Lines, whose ships will fly between the U. S. and Mediterranean and Black Sea ports...
...Ethiopian situation was a function of the rebirth of Germany," asserted the instructor. Always treated as the inferior Latin brothers of the French, Italy at first, in her desire to carve out a new "Roman Empire" in the Mediterranean, came into conflict with the German national expansion of similar character...
...British rearmament McKay stated that it had been primarily directed against Germany, whose air force was the chief threat to their peace at the present time. The rehabilitation of the Imperial navy has been planned for the defense of the Mediterranean merchant ships which now carry 20 per cent of all British import goods...
From the British point of view the concession is like money from home. It gives Great Britain a huge oil reserve which can be reached without passing through the Mediterranean, where she no longer has undisputed control. From the U. S. point of view the move looked like an astute means of splitting the unified stand of the foreign oil companies on the wage question...