Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, at their two-room log cabin (175 miles northeast of Winnipeg, across the Ontario border), the Campbells were preparing for a real buying spree. It would be their first junket to "the Outside" in 14 years...
...Chungking, Chang Kia-ngau, close adviser to the Generalissimo and his chief economic expert at the Changchun negotiations, announced: "The taking over of the Northeast will proceed smoothly. Russian authorities have expressed their willingness to extend help...
National Government troops in pastel green uniforms shop for meat and vegetables on the streets of Suichung, some 30 miles northeast of the famed Chang Chen (The Great Wall). A Cantonese soldier, who looks everlastingly cold in Manchuria's November weather, carries a bunch of celery under his arm. Another plods across a field where white sheep graze on sparse brown stubble, with a pair of unwrapped pigs' feet dangling in one hand...
...southern Indo-China, dominated by the great harbor and naval base of Saigon, French troops mopped up Viet Nam guerrillas. Like the Chinese troops, the British were technically present to disarm the Japanese, were helping the French. In a skirmish at Bienhoa, a rail town some 20 miles northeast of Saigon, two British Indian soldiers were killed...
Last week P.C.A. President C. Bedell Munro announced a merger of the two lines. It has been agreed on by the board of directors of each company, has yet to be approved by the stockholders and the Civil Aeronautics Board. Stockholders of ailing Northeast ($77,000 in the red last year) will receive half a share in P.C.A. for each share in Northeast...