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Word: seaway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German troops passage to Norway did not ease nervousness about the North. London heard and believed a new tale of attempt at the Strait of Dover last week, which was said to have failed because the R. A. F. shot down 133 planes that day and bad weather made seaway grim for the barges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Don't Get Restive | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Popular idea of the duties of U. S. functionaries in Canada has been that they carry on glacier-slow discussions of the St. Lawrence Seaway and, at the opening of each new international bridge, call attention to the 3,897 miles of U. S. Canadian frontier that have no fortifications whatsoever. New U. S.-Canadian relations involve staggering possibilities: that the seat of the British Empire might be moved to Ottawa if Britain should be overrun, that the British fleet might be forced to seek bases in Canadian ports, that Nazi Germany might claim Canada if she won-in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Moffat to Ottawa | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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