Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British should mount antisubmarine guns and anti-aircraft guns on fast Norwegian ships, let them travel independently as some fast British vessels do now. They could then outrun submerged submarines, outshoot surface ones, and take their chances against air attack. > The British make each ship wait its turn to unload in British ports, regardless of cargo value and ship's speed. The Norwegians want port priorities for fast ships carrying only precious cargo...
...have no exchange with which to buy U. S. cotton. In his plans for cotton's future, Grower Johnston seemed to rely not so much on the revival of world trade as on ersatz technology and the maintenance of a potent growers' lobby in Congress, able to unload its surplus on Uncle Sam - for cash...
...conquests worthwhile. She lost access to Sweden's iron ore, Norway's refined and processed metals, dairy products from Denmark and The Netherlands, Scandinavian timber, Belgian steel, bauxite from France. But so long as she controlled the seas, had bottoms to carry goods in, ports to unload them at, she could call on the Empire and the Americas to replace what the Nazis had taken. In the folds of Britain's Pennine Range were 19% of the world's coal, 8% of its iron ore-enough to keep her basic war industries going...
...German generals are deliberately prolonging the enervating suspense. They want to conquer London by isolating it from the nearby arteries which every morning unload in Covent Garden, in Billingsgate and on the docks tons and tons of foodstuffs that London does not produce and without which the 7,000,000 inhabitants of the city could not resist one month...
...targets which Germany considered most important. The bombed towns are those mentioned in German communiques (the British do not name exact sites). In some cases the Germans may not have hit where they thought, but, other places have also been bombed, by accident, by bombers in a hurry to unload and start for home. In these bombings according to British admission 336 civilians were killed and 476 seriously wounded, less than a normal month's toll in traffic accidents...