Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rule the ruler's heart than two. The Maharaja complied, then issued a ringing challenge: Manipur would resist the Jap to the last man. The young men of Manipur, busy dancing and throwing crimson and purple powder on one another, paused. Wedged between India and Burma, 400 miles northeast of Calcutta, 200 northwest of Mandalay and just south of the realm of Bong Wong, the Ang of Namsang. Manipur has one smooth, green valley, 50 miles long. The rest is towering, jungle-covered mountains. Lakes dot the Imphal Valley and ducks dot the lakes. British officers, stationed in India...
Looking Forward. The fighting, at least at Cassino, has now reached a stalemate comparable to that on the Western Front in World War I. Last week Allied troops advanced a mile to take Mt. Marrone, a dominating peak-but at a point far in the hills, some 15 miles northeast of Cassino, where the prospects of an effective drive appeared small...
...cinemactress's southern plantation last week became a Trappist monastery. To Conyers, Ga., 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, came 20 monks (10 priests, 3 clerics or students, 7 lay brothers), all members of the Roman Catholic Church's strictest monastic order (Trappists do not converse with one another). For $45,000 they bought 1,464-acre Honey Creek Plantation, which formerly belonged to old-time filmstar Colleen Moore. Said Atlanta's Catholic attorney Hughes Spalding to liquor dealer Mercer Harbin, who sold the farm : "Now, Mercer, I don't want you trying to cheat them." Replied...
...Ledo Road. Purpose of Uncle Joe Stilwell's latest drive-460 miles northeast of Mountbatten's southward push toward Akyab-is to march across northern Burma over some of the world's cruelest, most miasmic terrain, clearing Japs from the path of the new Ledo Road which hopefully will connect with the old Burma Road. Thus eventually a route to China may be opened to supplement supply by airplanes flying the "hump...
While TIME'S editors would be the last to classify the magazine as an investment counsel medium, I wish to do so. Back in the Dec. 14, 1942 issue I read a short article on Northeast Airlines, Inc., which contained the sentence, "It was growing so fast even its sponsors were dazzled...