Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...cruiser and destroyer screen that had led the British battlewagons to Valona kept going northward. Some of them swept the Italian coast as far as Bari, a harbor right on the Achilles' tendon above Italy's heel. Another detachment swept northeast as far as Durazzo, Albania's second-best landing spot. Sir Andrew was on his flagship, had brought his fleet up on a quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear...
...semicircle of concrete pillboxes, land mines and artillery emplacements, 15 miles in perimeter. After the British mechanized units, commanded by Major General Michael O'Moore Creagh had pinned them in, the encircled men tried to run for it, thousands at a time. As they fled on the coast road around the rim of Cyrenaica toward Marshal Graziani's main fortified base at Tobruch, 70 miles west, the R. A. F. and the mechanized British attacked them and occasionally fleet units shelled the road. At length the Bardia troops resigned themselves to being bottled up, praying for rescue...
...daily & Sunday) circulation of more than 1,040,000-which is considerable on a continent of 7,000,000 inhabitants. But Sir Keith, except for a small interest in the Sydney Sun, has no newspaper holdings in New South Wales-a section as important in Australia as the Eastern coast...
Influenza. The epidemic of mild influenza on the West Coast (TIME, Dec. 16) appeared to be petering out there. From the coast, the disease traveled south, striking Texas and Oklahoma, but with waning force. Hardest hit was the little town of Alexandria, La. where authorities estimated at least 30,000 flu cases...
...Candidate Roosevelt as a synonym for enemy-of-the-people. At year's end, tough Tom Girdler's emissaries were in Washington and Wall Street, working on a deal to carry out one of the President's pet ideas: an integrated steel company on the West Coast (there is none) to supply booming Pacific shipyards...