Word: farthest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farthest north was Stockholm Correspondent John Scott, who planned to spend Christmas Day skiing with 70 interned American airmen near Falun in central Sweden. But Hart Preston was looking forward to beating the heat of Christmas in Rio with a day at the beach...
...After this outburst, no more until Thursday, when up rose the Senate's ancient Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina. Baggy-faced, walrussy Cotton Ed, 79, went farthest South yet in criticism of Franklin Roosevelt, bitter sneers that were heard with laughter, nods, and in warm silence...
Printing TIME on the Persian Gulf for the American soldiers in Iran is farthest East in more ways than one. The only press in the place is an ancient, hand-fed flatbed that had to be fanned for two hours to cool it off after an hour's run. And when you read this report on how our first issue got printed , I think you will understand why nobody else has ever before tried to bring out a newsmagazine in the land of the houri...
...Airports. "Perhaps one of the most striking physical phenomena of the modern world are the huge airfields which have been constructed with American money and American labor at the farthest corners of the earth. Most of these have not been constructed in territory belonging to the United States, and military secrecy forbids my stating just where they...
...even military necessity has economic limits. Last week in Washington, as not long before in the Yukon's Whitehorse, the Truman Committee was blood-hounding the question whether this farthest north oilfield was not also farthest north in cost...