Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Nearest potential fighting zone, in the Army's mind, is the Panama Canal. No sound Army planner expects an enemy to land troops, guns, tanks in or near the Canal Zone. But last January the U. S. Navy showed George Marshall and many another Army man what a foe might do with aircraft carriers. In joint Army-Navy practice off the West Coast, U. S. Navy planes flew at will over the fog-bound mainland, "demolished" every Army aircraft base in the game, flew gaily back to their carriers outside the fog area. Meantime, Army bombers and defensive planes...
...coast so closely that she went aground off Mandal, Norway's southernmost town. Her captain presented a huge sausage to the first Norwegian fisherman who came along, asked him to pull the U-boat free. The fisherman, after consuming the sausage and praising its quality, notified the nearest naval station and the Nazis were all interned at Horten, with a fine show of strict Norwegian neutrality...
...carved them, or what their significance was. They will try to find out. They guess that the carvings must have served some purpose in awesome religious rites. The heads have no apparent kinship with any known Mayan sculpture. Biggest mystery: Tabasco heads are made of basalt, and the nearest known source of basalt is 100 miles away. The people who made them must have done a tall job of transportation...
...Voluntary Methods." Nearest any member of the Government has come to touching the Keyres Plan in public was when Minister Without Portfolio Baron Hankey told the House of Lords that, "It has not been rejected." A forced loan was out of the question, said Lord Hankey, while the Government is still trying to see whether the same object cannot be attained voluntarily. In retort last week Professor Keynes snorted: "To depend on voluntary methods, when the Treasury has to take half the national income, is comparable to relying on these methods to raise an army...
...inhabited. In 1875, Japan agreed to let Russia have the whole storm-beaten spit. Russia made a grim prison of it, and every year exiled to it some 7,000 prisoners-who then had a 4,000-mile walk across the ice of Tartary Strait and Siberia to the nearest court of appeals. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, Japan won the half of the island which lies south of latitude 50° north. Ever since, Japan and Russia have squabbled (but never actually fought) over its oil, coal and fish. Each now wants the whole place...