Word: outlets
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Rending were the birth pangs. They had a nightmare quality-of belated haste to aid the Allies, to beat warring men in machines with impersonal, insufficient machines without men; then, slowly, a blank awareness that this escapist outlet was no outlet...
...That outlet stations were contractually hog-tied to one network, prevented from broadcasting in their areas many programs the public wanted...
...determined, Archinard waited for quiet, then returned to his machine. Brushing aside bits of broken glass, he proceeded to bat out an eyewitness account of the bombing that added another feather to radio newscasting's well-feathered war bonnet. The German advance has closed one after another outlet to U. S. war broadcasters. But while they had spots to talk from, they have done their jobs well...
...land which the Allies have wrested from the Nazi war machine. German airmen tried to strengthen their comrades' failing grip, but massed Allied warships, planes, artillery and foot soldiers on all four sides brought about at last the recapture of snow-clad Narvik, all-but-forgotten Norwegian outlet for Sweden's high-grade iron...
Adolf Hitler deemed Narvik important enough, as the main outlet for Swedish iron ore, to spend one-third of his destroyers trying to secure it. From conquered southern Norway his ground troops now pushed northward towards the battered iron port. Nazi parachute troops appeared at Mo, more than halfway up the coast highway from Namsos to Bodo, beyond which 47 miles of road end in trackless mountains stretching another 87 crow-line miles to Narvik. They were hurried ahead to cut off a Norse contingent and some 300 remnant British who, retreating north from Namsos, delayed the Nazi column...