Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pattern of bombings in Germany proper since June (extended last month to include Italy's key motor, magneto and aircraft plants at Milan and Turin, and last week to Sardinia) spreads from the Lake of Constance on the Swiss border to Kiel on the Baltic, and now as far east as Berlin (see map). Relentless, consistent, it was stepped up by last week to at least 800 planes per night, neutral observers believed, carrying a nightly total of perhaps 2,500 tons of destruction from 16 British bases. Its purpose was the slow, sure crippling of German industry...
Because the Reich has a highly developed motor-trucking system...
There lie London's water-supply system, centred at Staines, and several trunk rail lines which, in the absence of an adequate motor-highway system, must feed and supply 8,600,000 people if the Thames jugular is constricted...
...German Duke of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha, who had been gazetted out in 1915, was gazetted back again as Knight of the Garter. In the same year he became a leader of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha was the house of the British Royal Family, which gazetted itself the House of Windsor only...
...world's decisive battles (largely through the tactical resource of Gates's brilliant subordinate, Benedict Arnold) he had to hand over his sword. Thus ended the only invasion down the Hudson Valley that had even the faintest chance of substantial success. A new invader would advance with motor transport instead of bateaux, with tanks and aircraft instead of Indian allies. The chances of whether he could be defeated would depend largely on the means the U. S. could muster to counter these weapons...