Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...case flickered feebly until mid-1934, when Appalachian began actual construction of its unlicensed dam. In August 1939 a 1,140-foot barrier of grey-white concrete stretched across the New, with nine big spillways near the middle. Thirtieth largest hydroelectric plant in the U. S., Claytor Dam backed up 206,000 acres of water into a lake reaching 21 miles upriver...
...Thailand were to be attacked soon by Japan, it would probably be from the north and west, via French Indo-China.Thailand's northwestern frontier with Indo-China follows a fairly good military barrier, the Mekong River-except for a stretch of about 270 miles, where Indo-China has title to a narrow strip of territory south and east of the river. The area once belonged to Thailand. About the time Japan moved into Indo-China, Thailand decided to demand this strip of land, to close the gap in the barrier. Because she went to work on Indo-China...
...disappear from her mahogany-red deck. Compressed air sighs and hisses. Bells ring. Whistles blow as planes taxi forward and are whisked magically below to the hangar deck on high-speed elevators. Occasionally a siren wails like a seagoing banshee as a pilot overshoots and cracks up against the barrier (but seldom hurts himself or crew...
...coastal plain, which the Italians call the Marmarica. Some 30 miles inland from Buqbuq an escarpment juts suddenly above the desert, 300-600 feet high. This escarpment runs diagonally towards the coast and meets it at Salum, hard by the Libyan border. Were it a man-made barrier like China's Great Wall, the escarpment could be no more effective as a wall against land warfare. At Salum just two precipitous gullies run from the plain to the top of the plateau and Libya. Into those bottlenecks the British chased the remainder of what British communiques calmly called...
With splendid irony the Japanese military authorities posted a sign on the barrier blocking off the "badlands" of Western Shanghai: "People with evil intentions against the Japanese Army . . . are strictly forbidden to pass through here." Specifically forbidden was the man with the best possible reason for passing: Major S. R. Hunt, liaison officer between the British Consulate and the Japanese Army...