Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearing a lot about building extra locks for the Panama Canal in case a lock was destroyed by air-attack from bombers [TIME, Aug. 28]. Could not the extra lock be put out of operation just as easily as the present one, if not the same day, the next day? Then, why not put a lid over the present locks and make them bombproof? This could be done by building a number of bascule leaves over the locks, making the leaves as near bombproof as possible, and adding further protection by having ten or twelve-foot standards supporting heavy chain...
Undeterred by immunity, a reporter for the Los Angeles Herald and Express last week talked his way past guards at the gate. Next day the Herald and Express printed four columns of detail about roulette (10? a chip) and bingo (10? a card) in the consulate's shoddy rooms. An attendant was quoted: ". . . We don't have craps or the other games. Just bingo and the wheels. We could have craps, of course, but that would make it too much like a gambling joint...
...infiltration forces found the way, France's 70-ton "rolling fortresses" next trundled forth, followed by more infantry. Main function of these monsters, hurling 3-in. shells, is to wipe out all remaining "pockets" of resistance and ultimately carry the attack to the main defenses...
...Next he took as his aide Honey Fitz's secretary, Edward Moore. Eddie Moore, Irish as a clay pipe, was the first member of the family Kennedy founded, nurse, comforter, friend, stooge, package-bearer, adviser, who played games with Joe and the children, bought neckties and bonds for Joe, opened doors, wrote letters, investigated investments, saw to it Joe wore his rubbers...
Before German pursuit could get into the air the raiders had crawled back into the overcast and headed for home, after a lively half hour or so with every machine gun and anti-aircraft cannon in the area whanging away at them. Next day Britain announced that severe damage had been done to a battleship lying alongside the mole at Brunsbüttel, that hits had been made on a second man-of-war off Wilhelmshaven. Few days later an unconfirmed dispatch from Switzerland said the 26,000-ton Gneisenau had been sunk. Germany denied it, said its anti-aircraft...