Word: eastwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...domestic affiliate of Standard of New Jersey, bailed out the first 400 barrels of black crude from the first producing well on the Eastern Seaboard. Standard's 11,700-ft.-deep well added fuel to the old hope of geologists that the great Gulf Coast oil beds extend eastward to the Atlantic, comprise an area almost double that of the present known fields...
Another Admiral. Eastward above the sun-scorched plain of India flew the big transport Marco Polo. At New Delhi the plane circled down, taxied to a hangar's shade. The rear underhatch opened, a ladder thrust down. Out climbed an immaculately groomed Briton in the semitropical khaki of a Royal Navy Admiral. A welcoming line of high-ranking Allied officers, flecked with gold braid and turbans, snapped to salute. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the King-Emperor, ex-chief of the Commandos and now Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, briskly returned the salute. Down the line of officers...
This more or less supplementary role was not MacArthur's idea (see p. 35). His strategy and ambition was to drive for the Philippines, with the U.S. Navy supporting him, knocking out flanking Jap island bases on the way, bypassing those which were too far eastward to cause him trouble...
...Salerno? When Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark's troops landed at Salerno, the troops of the Eighth Army had been in Italy for six days. They held about 750 sq. mi, of Italy's Calabrian peninsula and they were moving steadily northward and eastward. The British V Corps was about to take the port of Taranto, secure the lower Adriatic coast. German mines and booby traps delayed these troops, but the delays were not serious. Holding southern Calabria and moving into Apulia, the British held very little of Italy. But that little was secure, it was open...
...Eighth army had begun the landings, the Germans' chief effort was to extract what troops and planes they could. When, on the seventh day, the British arrived to take the great port of Taranto, the Germans had deserted it to confused, volubly embarrassed Italians. As the British marched eastward to Brindisi on the Adriatic, they met only the rear guard of a retreating German Panzer division...