Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With one other invasion blow, the Japs could grab all they need of Australia for their immediate purposes. This blow would probably fall on two points: Cape York at the northern extremity of Australia's eastern coast, Gladstone at its center. Object: to close the inland waterway between the eastern shore and 1,200-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, give the Japs a protected channel more than half way from Cape York to the great port and naval base at Sydney. In Gladstone the Japs would take away one of the few oil depots the Allies have...
...Japs last week began to execute this invasion plan. When they landed forces at Salamaua and Lae in Australia's outlying New Guinea, they were 400 miles from Cape York. Again they bombed Port Moresby, New Guinea's chief sea town. They were almost ready to invade Australia...
Hugh D. Black, Lieutenant-Commander, U.S. Navy, and onetime associate professor of Naval Science and Tactics at the University, went down with his ship yesterday when the destroyer Jacob Jones was torpedoed off Cape May by an enemy submarine...
When Professor Burns of Dartmouth raved that Harvard historians never travel beyond the Cape and are interested in nothing west of the Hudson, he must have forgotten Paul Buck. This stocky, bespectacled historian came to Harvard in 1923 and has since acquired a reputation of knowing "more about the South than any man in the Country," as one Alabaman newspaper editor...
Since his expanded Ph.D. thesis appeared in book form as "The Road to Reunion" and won him the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in history, Professor Buck has sat securely on the top of the American history heap. And although he does spend his summers on the Cape and has done the major part of his studying in Cambridge, he could never be called a New Englander. Born in Columbus, Ohio and attending Ohio State in his home town, Buck, after deciding not to be a biologist, has traveled periodically through the South and spent a year in Europe on a Sheldon...