Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese Communist armies had the initiative in Manchuria. Moving down from the north, they cut the railway that connects the Manchurian capital, Changchun, with Government strongholds farther south. Then the Communists advanced toward Changchun itself. Inside the city, spruce, gimlet-eyed General Tu Yu-ming, Government commander for all Northeast China, tried to decide whether the Communists were out to capture Manchuria's capital or only worry...
...result, said the South & West, the Northeast had prospered at their expense. With only 16% of the U.S. land area, the East had 55% of the nation's workers, 76% of the manufacturing. Its average income ran 20% above the national level...
Over Georgia's Muscogee County Airport, nine miles northeast of Columbus, a twin-engined plane circled and headed in for a landing. At the controls sat Delta Air Lines operations vice president, George R. Gushing, 48, a veteran pilot. Gushing and seven other Delta men (including Legal Adviser Lindley W. Camp, 52, longtime political crony of the late Gene Talmadge) were inspecting a network of newly acquired Georgia-Texas routes...
...house lifted into the air, "hung there, and shook like a fish net being dipped out of water." Then the funnel lifted, and roared off to the northeast. White Deer had been lucky; only three were injured...
...Eshowe, the pleasant little Zululand capital some 800 miles to the northeast, native chieftains were already laying plans to have their men come in from the surrounding kraals for a vast war-dance on the airfield to welcome royalty...