Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last week it seemed that the Caudillo Franco had almost earned his title of Victor. Santander had fallen. Free for use on other fronts were 50,000 troops. Next objective in the northwest was Gijon, and as Rightists pushed westward along the Bay of Biscay they claimed Asturian troops were in full flight before them, 5,000 surrendering at the port town of Lanes. The Vatican had recognized the Rightist State. Off the tables of Marshal Pietro Badoglio in Rome was generally expected a new plan of attack by which Madrid would be captured before cold weather...
...17/64 inch to the foot. It is powered by 18-volt direct current, has 1,500 ft. of rolled steel tracks laid 1¼ in. apart, a 9-ft. spot-welded steel replica of New York City's Hell Gate Bridge. Visitors chuckled at the signs erected along this road at points where construction was under way: WPA PROJECT-SLOW-MEN AT WORK...
...America's ice-locked top. But not until 1906 did any man navigate completely across the Arctic. Roald Amundsen, Norway's hero-explorer, in a three-year trip and with the loss of one of his seven men, traversed the first Northwest Passage*-Baffin Bay, Barrow Straight, along the west coast of North Somerset Island to Cambridge Bay and out to Beaufort Sea and the Pacific. Amundsen's icebound trail, full of shallows, swirling currents and subject to sudden storms has since been followed by only three or four ships...
...Across the Pole is the Northeast Passage to China along the top of Norway & Russia. Sebastian Cabot initiated its search in 1553. Henry Hudson twice attempted a passage but it was not until 1879 that the route was navigated. Now Russia currently operates 160 freighters on summer schedules in the Northeast Passage's more open but colder waters...
...worst knots in the perplexing U. S. airmail snarl can best be explained by this syllogistic sequence: 1) the airlines cannot get along without airmail subsidy; 2) airmail contracts are let competitively to the lowest bidder; 3) therefore airlines often have to bid so low to get the contracts that the airmail subsidy literally costs them money. A perfect case in point took place in July when the Post Office Department opened the bids for four new airmail routes. The minor run from Cheyenne to Huron, S. Dak. went to Wyoming Air Service, for the realistic...