Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dispatch case, was a picture of determination as the Council members strode off to lunch. Afterward Prime Minister King led them to Parliament House. On the way up the front steps Mr. King stumbled and Fiorello LaGuardia darted to pick him up. The Council retired into the long, narrow, oak-paneled Liberal Smoking Room (No. 497), and set about considering the strategic possibilities of eastern Canada and the northeastern U. S. The proposed lease of British bases to the U. S. was largely outside their bailiwick. Asked what he expected of the conference, the Little Flower of Manhattan snapped: "Results...
...Britian's convoy point once again, reputedly has been made into a good naval base as well. From its seaplane and land air bases, Canuck pilots fly out to sea on convoy escort and submarine patrol. Nova Scotia is heavily wooded, is connected with the mainland by a narrow strip of land. To a defender it is valuable as a base for ranging out to sea against an invader, flanking him if he gets through and tries to enter the St. Lawrence. For an invader once established, Halifax is only 369 mi. from Boston, has a Royal Canadian...
...eliminated; volume is 12 to 15% of pre-war levels. In Shorters Court, the dingy yard where 400 yelling traders often moiled till 10 p.m., there is now no trading at all, for "Yankees" (U. S. securities) formerly traded there are all Government-held. Two fire engines block the narrow passageway to Shorters. Throgmorton Street, a sort of Curb exchange for oil and mining shares, is empty too. In the idle House, the brokers drill four nights a week for home defense; by day they play Spitfire pools. These pay off on the number of "Jerrys" brought down...
...passenger train, narrow-gauge freight, shaky Chevrolet, pack train and Indian dugout, Explorer Blotner went into the interior in 1931, came out with information on weather, topography, disposition of the natives. Three years later, on an aerial survey of the projected route, his pilot got lost, ran out of gas, made a forced landing in the wilderness. Airman Blotner might still be there if a Brazilian geographic expedition hadn't happened along, lent him some gas which got his ship to Belem...
...Nazis gained mastery of the air they could demolish the bases from which the British Fleet operates in the Channel and the North Sea; they could make those narrow seas untenable for the trawlers which lay and sweep mines; they could sink British destroyers (whose vulnerability has already been proved) which tried to counterattack with their own torpedo boats; they could keep British convoys out of the Channel; they could destroy the western port facilities through which Britain receives the goods necessary to her life and defense. Under these conditions the British Fleet might remain unconquered, the British merchant marine...