Word: coastal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kriegsspiel, Anyone? Monotonous languor seems almost the key to an uncanny series of decisions and events that shackled German strength on Dday. Half a dozen or more top German officers besides Rommel were absent from their coastal commands. Some of these, ironically enough, were taking part in a Kriegsspiel, a war game simulating an enemy landing in Normandy. On the very eve of Dday, the Seventh Army, guarding Normandy, was taken off alert because the weather was bad and all previous Allied landings had taken place in fair weather. The 124 planes of the 26th fighter wing stationed near...
Formosa. When Clerk Tsai Yung-ting awoke at 2 a.m., the rain had been falling for hours on the sleeping coastal village of Houlung. Too late, he rushed down to the sea wall-to find the dike watchmen asleep and the water pouring through. By the time he got back to rouse the sleeping village, the torrent was already waisthigh. That night Tsai and 29 others of Houlung's 100 people died...
Most of Formosa's 10 million population are clustered along the island's western coastal plains, in the shadow of mountain ranges from which streams fall precipitously and fan out through dike-guarded channels. The rains started first in the north. Later, in the central part of the island, a record 40 inches of rain fell onto the rocky hills, then raced down in torrents that carried tumbling rocks the size of pumpkins along with them to batter dikes on the plain below. Changhua, a city of 70,000 people, was inundated. At one village near...
...announced that it has proved up perhaps the largest untapped gas field in gas-rich South Texas. Estimated reserves: a trillion cubic feet. But that was only Harry Mosser's opening card; he also announced a contract to sell 800 billion cu. ft. of gas to Coastal States Gas Producing Co. at 16? per thousand cu. ft. (with escalator clause), biggest such deal in years. Coastal will build a ten-inch pipeline from the field in Duval and Jim Wells counties to Associated's recycling (i.e., processing) plant 25 miles away near Corpus Christi, hopes to get Federal...
...Airman Arkfeld, this trip from the coastal town of Wewak to one of the vicariate's 38 inland stations was routine; he logs an average of 30 flights a week, carries such diverse cargo as day-old chicks, bull calves, building material, engine parts, Australian beer, food, nuns, priests and mission helpers. Now and then he flies armed patrols, native cops or doctors to trouble spots, and he is always available to transport the sick or injured to the nearest hospital. Furthermore, says he, by plane "I am able to make many of my confirmation trips with less effort...