Word: footholds
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Protected by great stretches of blue water, Balboa is the heart of naval defense of the Canal, will need far-flung defenses if an enemy ever gets a foothold on the Pacific side of South America. It may need protection, even before that event, from harassing raids by enemy carriers or by long-range bombers, when factories begin producing raiders like Douglas Aircraft...
...many places as possible to delay, hamper, bother and hurt the Nazi machine as much as possible. In the colorful language of Colonel William Joseph Donovan, who talked with General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell not long ago, the British "had a toe hold and wanted to make it a foothold...
...this week it was clear which way the wind sock was pointing. If Panagra is to keep her foothold in Ecuador, earn the right to buy out Sedta's operating permit, she (and Washington) must throw as much money into Ecuador's winds as Adolf Hitler...
...London, Secretary of State for India Leopold Stennett Amery put the brightest of all faces on the historic stand of Greece. Said he: "If we can enable Greece to hold her own until we have disposed of the Italians in Egypt, we shall have secured for our armies a foothold from which we might threaten the flank of any German attack on Turkey...
...Japan the stake was well worth the play. Though the oil fields had been considered worthless by U. S. and British geologists, they gave Japan a foothold on the Gulf of Mexico, a base from which to route supplies across the Mexican Isthmus bypassing the Canal. The embargo involved 700 flasks of mercury (for making explosives), 14 sacks of molybdenum (for making steel alloys), 2,000 tons of fluor spar (for making aluminum), such oddments as 1,700 tons of flour, 5,000 drums of gasoline and oil. But the scrap and certain petroleum products which were "practically Government monopolies...