Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago's new subway is not the world's shortest. Shorter: Budapest, Madrid, Osaka...
Last April, with much hoopla, Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly gave the voters a preliminary peek at the new Chicago subway. Last week, six months later, the first "official" train went through. The longest-promised (50 years), costliest ($6,938,000 per mile), shortest (4.9 miles) subway in the world was now open for business...
...front was still in the plans of the High Command, gathering weight. When it came, Churchill warned, it would be the "bloodiest portion of the war." When that time would be was the High Command's secret. Also a deep secret was its route. The shortest way is across France and the Low Countries, the same road over which the Wehrmacht poured...
...Anglo-American broadcasts to Europe's chafing underground? The London radio said: "You who belong to resistance groups of specialists know already that your services are wanted on day J at hour H." The Algiers radio told the people of Occupied Europe to "perfect all preparations in the shortest possible time...
...earliest and shortest land-sea battles on record was a naval rout and cavalry triumph. In 1818 José Antonio Páez, a crack horseman and guerrilla leader under Simon Bolivar, sent 50 of his llaneros against a flotilla of Spanish gunboats anchored in the middle of the Apure river in Venezuela. Waving spears and howling like Oriental dervishes, they swam their barebacked white horses through the swift, brown waters. Astonished Spaniards fired a few random shots and then jumped overboard in panic. Páez took every boat, without losing...