Word: lined
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...main objective would be the island of Borneo, which has the oil supplies that Japan needs. Lightly held by Britain and The Netherlands, Borneo might seem easy to take. But between Formosa and Borneo lie 1,500 miles of water, over which Japan would have to stretch her supply line. Flanking the line are the great British fortress of Singapore, the lesser station at Hong Kong, the U. S. base at Cavite (Manila). Just beyond Borneo's southern tip lies the Dutch base at Surabaya...
...Burma. At the Dutch bases are five cruisers, eight destroyers, 18 submarines and about 100 long-range bombers (some of them U. S.-made Martins). In the Far East the U. S. has two cruisers, 13 destroyers, twelve submarines besides patrol and bombing planes. Against an attenuated Japanese supply line they could play particular hell. To prevent this, Japan would probably be forced to give her cargo craft the support of her fleet, with the danger that the U. S. Fleet might cut it off from home...
Last week Aircraft Maker Lawrence (Airacobra) Bell showed newsmen his recently expanded factory in Buffalo. His guests inspected hundreds of gleaming, new machine tools, saw that Larry Bell had perhaps the finest aircraft plant in the U. S. They looked over a production line of some 30 Airacobras -all-metal, low-winged, single-engined pursuit planes designed to fly upwards of 400 m.p.h., climb phenomenally fast to intercept enemy bombers. And the visitors got a lesson in the status of U. S. defense...
...Airacobra was in service. Two were nearly finished. Three a day should be trundling off the production line for the U. S. Army and Navy within three months, five a day by next spring (plus additional planes for Great Britain). But Larry Bell last week had on hand only one of the 37-mm. cannon which fire through the Airacobra's nose. He had only one propeller designed for the cannon (which projects through a hole in the propeller hub). Worst of all he had only three liquid-cooled, in-line Allison engines...
...business." His wife José, Pierre Laval's daughter, took him to the Gare de l'Est and business began. Business for René de Chambrun was to be conducted with the 162nd Régiment d'Infanterie de Forteresse, 140 steps down in the Maginot Line's Fort of Rotherberg in Lorraine. Like a sunken battleship, the fortress throbbed eight hours a day as Diesels pumped in air and light. At 10 o'clock the motors stopped. The lights went out. Then sleep in Chambrun's concrete cell battled with claustrophobia. The first...