Word: overseas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Company 1 Midshipmen who came from Northwestern can be distinguished from their brothers of Company 2 by several articles of uniform. Their visor caps and raincoats are quite a contrast to the "Oversea's" caps and bridge coats of the men from Columbia. But the really distinctive feature of their uniform is that, for the most part, they have only one pair of trousers...
...after Taranto. But certain prime facts remained: 1) the Italian Fleet had run from the British, as always; 2) it had failed to intercept another shipment of British war materiel and man power to the Middle East; 3) operating from Naples or Cagliari, it cannot defend Italy's oversea supply line to Africa as well as it could from Taranto before the British got into Crete...
With Italy's oversea supply line to Africa more vulnerable than ever after Taranto, all these actions suggested the beginning of a British effort to smother Italy before Germany can help her out in Greece or anywhere else...
After three days the German Admiralty tersely claimed the complete destruction of a British convoy totaling 86,000 tons "on the British western route" by "surface craft of the German oversea Navy forces. . . . The attack of the German units was made with striking quickness, because, from the other ships sunk, not even SOS signals were caught by American radio stations." British authorities called the whole story "unlikely." They said that "a number of ships successfully eluded the raider." But day followed day with no further word from the Rangitiki, Cornish City or any other ship that had been with them...
...neutral tons) lost in the week ended Oct. 21. That disastrous week was followed by the loss of the Empress of Britain on Oct. 26. Last week, in a report to Parliament which was otherwise fairly cheerful. Prime Minister Winston Churchill faced the black facts about Britain's oversea supply lines by saying...