Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy banged hardest at MacArthur's right flank, apparently to grab a toehold on the highway leading south on Bataan's east shore. He was hurled back with heavy losses. Meanwhile he stabbed tentatively through the mountains on the west shore, and near week's end he reported landing seaborne forces on Subic Bay. If he was telling the truth nothing immediately came of it. Douglas MacArthur was able to report that "enemy pressure ... in the Bataan peninsula has lessened...
...American who recalls the formidable adventures of German U-boat skippers like Von Nostitz, Janckendorf and Koenig, reports of abandoned survivors and gun-strafed life rafts were far cries from the heroic U-boat actions of the last war. Then the sleek, expertly manned underwater craft slipped boldly into shore waters, in less than six months of 1918 they sowed mines, sank six steamships and 31 other vessels. Then their commanding officers were fighting gentlemen who usually took excellent care of their prisoners and actually had fun matching wits with frantic U.S. harbor-defense units...
There was the U-156. On a Sabbath morning in July 1918, she popped up opposite Provincetown, Mass., stayed 90 minutes, fired 147 rounds, sank a tug and three barges. Hundreds of appreciative bathers, tourists and thrill-seekers lined the shore watching the engagement like a crowd at a baseball game...
Eight days later he took off again. With no lights, no ship-to-shore radio, no forewarning signals of arrivals, Captain Ford took the Clipper westward 31,500 miles through twelve countries to New York. The Army's G-2 considered the course secret enough to forbid the crew's talking about it last week on their arrival. Probable route was New Caledonia, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, Ceylon, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, Arabia, Africa, the South Atlantic, and up from South America...
...raised its ceilings on raw and refined sugar about 7% (24? per cwt. for raw, 20? for refined). While the chief reason for the raw-sugar rise was to bring all prices into line with the DSC-negotiated price to Cuba, it should also encourage increased production, both off-shore and domestic. > This week refiners and large industrial consumers met in Washington to discuss sugar allocations for the year. One likely outcome: requisitioning and reallocation of excess stocks. This would be particularly galling to the big users who stocked up foresightedly last year, some of whom are said to have...