Word: mining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...placed on belts that take it directly to the vessel and then the limestone and iron ore can be taken by water to any point on Puget Sound, and at all times in protected water. Compare this with the conditions in Minnesota, for example, where they have to mine the ore, then take it by rail to the docks, load it into the ore carriers, then unload at the foot of the lakes, then ship by rail to Pittsburgh, the principal centre of processing, and then load the finished product on cars and either ship it to the Atlantic Coast...
...Minister Neville Chamberlain appeared last week in the House of Commons for the first time in a fortnight. One of the first questions asked him was by Labor Leader Major Clement Richard Attlee: What steps did the Government propose to take to combat Germany's ruthless new Minenkrieg (mine warfare)? Mr. Chamberlain's reply startled the House and jarred the sensibilities of several nations. The Government, he said, would shortly authorize the Royal Navy to seize not only contraband goods suspected of going into Germany, but all "exports of German origin or ownership." Germany, lying on her economic...
...advent of "moon mining" by no means signaled the end of submarine mining, and Nazi death-layers above and below the surface were believed to be collaborating, laying mines of several types, from little (200-lb.) but potent "footballs," of which a big seaplane might be able to carry 40 or 50, up to one-ton monsters. As Britain mobilized an even greater trawler fleet and called for hundreds of volunteers from North Sea fishing ports, down went one ship after another, great and small, trawler and liner, nationality regardless. The 11,930-ton Japanese luxury steamer Terukuni Maru went...
From denying their strategy, the Nazis turned to boasting about it, justifying it, instead of pretending the mines were British. They said their "objectives were being achieved." They said they were proving they could give ten shots for one. Some of their mines bore inscriptions, such as: WHEN THIS GOES UP, UP GOES CHURCHILL. They advised neutrals to shun British waters, trade with Germany instead. British waters, they said, were not mercantile fairways, subject to The Hague Convention of 1907 regulating sea warfare,* but military areas where enemy ships of war abound and must be attacked. They had been made...
Thus considered, the novel is far from fascinating. What gives it its considerable interest is Author Holden's dogged, intelligent exploration of precisely those matters which run-of-the-mine novelists shirk: namely, the ambiguous complexities of even the most "normal" motives and actions. These subtleties and minutiae are themselves the true substance of this story. Lacking entirely the brilliance of the best work in its field, lacking no less the textbook glibness of the cheap work, as a psychological novel, Believe the Heart is definitely to be respected...