Word: channeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aerial reconnaissance cameras. Another theory of how he got in is that he disguised his superstructure to resemble a British submarine and boldly followed in the wake of a returning British ship, copying her recognition flash signals as they passed guardian destroyers. Or Prien may have picked out a channel, perhaps through Switha Sound, so close to shore that it was deemed by the British unthinkably dangerous and not worth mining or netting. But his own account of the adventure pointed most strongly to the eastern entrance of Scapa Flow, through narrow Holm Sound, where rocks and wrecks block...
...last week some 200,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force were across the Channel and safely in place. They continued arriving by night, three or four transports at a time, without interruptions. German submarines and the great German Air Force did not even throw a leaflet at them-just as the Allies did little to prevent the Germans from bringing up hundreds of thousands of men and tons of supplies to man the West-wall...
...Bremen left New York harbor [on Aug. 30] at her full speed of 32 knots in the direction of the English Channel. The captain changed direction 200 miles from New York, removed all flags and declined to answer radio calls...
...caught off Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser Sydney and set afire. Captain Miiller was captured, but his crew escaped ashore, hid in the jungle for weeks, found an old whaler, the Ayesha, refitted her, sailed 12,000 miles home around the Cape, dodging British destroyers through the Channel in a providential...
...rush to restore obsolete capacity was wildest. Western Pipe and Steel, a small steel fabricator which did only a $5,336,034 gross business last year, booked a $10,635,000 order from Chairman-Admiral Land, began to spend $400,000 to build four new ways, re-dredge the channel at its long unused yard in South San Francisco. At Los Angeles, Consolidated Steel, another small steel fabricator ordinarily happy with $4,000,000 of business, grabbed $7,560,000 of shipbuilding business, began renovating the old Craig yard. On the northwest coast, Todd Shipyard Corp. (for years mainly...