Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words scarcely had a chance to sink into the awareness of the U.S. public when the West Coast, on guard and tense along 3,250 miles of shore, received the first attack on continental U.S. soil. A submarine emerged from the sea about seven miles north of Santa Barbara, Calif., and for 20 minutes lobbed shells at an oil refinery. First reports: little damage; no one was injured; no fires were started; most of the 25 shells fired exploded in a field; frightening horses; one went over Highway 101, burst in the foothills. The attack began...
...enemy air units are appearing over our lines, bombing our troops almost constantly. . . . Hostile artillery fire on our forts from positions on the Cavite shore continues. New enemy batteries in Bataan have increased the density of artillery fire on our positions. A fairly large convoy of Japanese troopships has arrived in Subic Bay and enemy reinforcements are landing at Olongapo...
Many smaller companies did the same: Bigelow-Sanford from $1 to 50?, Columbia Broadcasting from 45 to 30?, West Virginia Pulp from 50 to 25?, Lake Shore Mines (gold) from 50 to 20?, Toolmaker L. S. Starrett from...
...turned to Captain Robert Bruskin . . . to ask what they were. 'Tracer shells,' he snapped. . . . After daylight we found fragments and saw where one had made a four-to six-inch dent in a [oil] tank before ricocheting off. . . . We found a German torpedo lying on the shore. It was a great big fellow, perhaps 18 ft. long, with a sharp nose...
...three tankers in all, damaged a fourth later off Curaçao. Its shore-aimed fire, directed at Standard Oil Co.'s big refinery, did no damage.' But the Axis had carried the war into the Caribbean, only 750 miles from the Panama Canal...