Word: eastwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Allied bombers continued to blast the way for invasion. The area they hit ranged from Sardinia 800 miles eastward to Greece. It was an area of destruction. Along its varied route lay shattered Axis planes, bomb-ripped airfields, flaming hangars; charred landing docks, twisted loading cranes and supply ships, fire-gutted and listing at anchor; splintered freight cars; black, billowing smoke that had been million-gallon oil dumps; and the smoking rubble of torpedo factories, iron foundries, steel works, chemical plants and supply depots...
California's vigorous Earl Warren, in his first venture eastward, gained the most in stature, as the Washington political correspondents "discovered" him. But the real glamor boy was New York's Dewey...
...weeks the Spanish peepers by Gibraltar had reported sea traffic pouring through the Pillars of Hercules in volume great enough to carry Mark Clark's Army and then some. One day Berlin reported 23 transports and tankers escorted by carriers, battleships and smaller ships going eastward, two days later reported 150 landing barges, escorted by destroyers and a carrier...
...great Soo Locks at the eastern tip of Superior and the narrow Straits of Mackinac that connect Lake Michigan with Lake Huron are the twin bottlenecks through which 85% of the nation's vast iron ore production flows to U.S. blast furnaces. The ore moves eastward to the Soo from Minnesota's Mesabi Range, then southwest to Gary, southeast to Cleveland, Youngstown and Pittsburgh...
Further, the eastward oil flow will be swelled in two ways...