Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond the Russian frontier. By week's end a swift-moving (150 miles in a fortnight) column of General Nikolai Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army stood almost at the city's gates. In a region of few roads, many forests and lakes, Sarny is a traffic hub. Through it passes a main north-south railway; without it, the Wehrmacht's forces in Poland would...
...Kwajalein, world's largest atoll, an 80-mile string of islets, is the hub of the Marshall fortifications. It has a major airfield (on Roi Island), a seaplane anchorage, submarine facilities. In its tremendous lagoon, raiding U.S. planes (TIME, Dec. 20), have caught cruisers, carriers, seagoing merchantmen and many varieties of inter-island craft...
America's latest and greatest fad since the automobile has been creating traffic hazards in downtown Boston for the past week--and threatens to cause the complete downfall of the Hub's traffic system before he leaves...
From bases in Italy, Lightning-escorted U.S. Mitchell (B25) medium bombers this week made their first raid on Sofia, vital Nazi rail hub, and left the Bulgarian capital's yards wreathed in smoke and flame. Crowed an Allied spokesman: "This successful opening of the Balkans offensive has far-reaching consequences...
Charlie Davis had a warm reunion Saturday night with an old barracks mat who recently graduated from officers' candidate school. The two of them filled up on spaghetti and reminiscences at a small Hub restaurant...