Word: northbound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long last, the foreign press invaded Soviet-occupied Manchuria. After months of Red tape and runarounds, 22 correspondents and photographers found it deceptively easy to push aside the iron curtain that had kept them out. With a hesitant Godspeed from the Chinese, they boarded northbound trains at Chinchow for sightseeing tours of Mukden, and Changchun, the capital...
...planning Russians, who have already drawn big blueprints for everything from history to human lives, now plan to raise the water level of an ancient sea and make a few northbound rivers flow south. The staggeringly complex plan is called the Greater Volga Project. G.V.P., a technically audacious scheme, was laid aside in 1939 and is now being dusted off and revised by a special commission of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Through a series of dams, canals and reservoirs, G.V.P. would provide an all-water route from Archangel to Batum. Involving cities, towns and villages where 50 million Russians...
Thus 1946 took up where 1945 had left off-and in the same area. Only 16 nights before, only 64 miles to the north, the Seaboard's west coast Silver Meteor had knifed into cars of the northbound Sun Queen, killing six, injuring 62. Seventy-two hours later, a Southern Railway freight had piled up on the rear of a New Orleans-New York limited, killing three...
...Part of the Japanese false front of modernism, they learned, was a race track beyond the East Gate. The Japs took their horses away, so it is closed. Near the South Gate, called Nam Tai Moon, the brick railway station was seething with refugees and other travelers. Nobody was northbound-that way lay Manchuria. Only a handful of Russian liaison officers-no troops-had appeared in Seoul. When one carload neared the city, they were politely turned back...
...southeast, the 25th (Major General Charles L. Mullins) was probing toward Highway 5, on which there was heavy northbound enemy traffic. In a three-day battle, the "Tropic Lightnings," as the men of the 25th style themselves, took only half the town of San Manuel. The second half was not much easier-by-passed Japs held on for days...