Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected a carrier task force battle ever since the Solomons invasion began. Not until last week, almost seven weeks after the Wasp had been sunk by submarines, did it come. A great Jap naval force in two sections, including at least three aircraft carriers, bore down from the northeast. Vice Admiral William Frederick ("Bull") Halsey Jr., the South Pacific's new commander, had his carrier force ready to battle Jap carriers for the third time in six months. Once again the battle was chiefly between planes and ships; no major surface engagement was reported by the Navy...
Honan Province is shaped like a sloppy rectangle and is bounded on the northeast by the Japanese army, which also occupies one-third of its area. Seventy counties are left free in Honan. The 35 counties crowded close against the Japanese in the northeast pocket are being withered by the worst civilian disaster in China since the outbreak of war. Refugees crossing the Chinese lines from Shantung report worse conditions there than in Honan. The refugees drift along in a stupor of hunger and despair, having no destination, but only the desperate urgency of flight...
After marching down from the Yard, the brigade will enter the Stadium by the chute in the northeast corner, pass in review, give both Army and Harvard cheers, and break formation to go into the special stands. They are then free to take seats there or go out through the portals for their regular seats, or back to their rooms to get overcoats or civilian clothes...
Last week Colonel Carmichael put on his first big show over Rabaul, Japanese naval and air base 600 miles northeast of Port Moresby, 700 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. For once, he had enough planes: more Fortresses than anyone had ever had before in the Southwest Pacific. For once, the raid was well planned. First the Australians went over Rabaul in their Catalina flying boats, loosed their bombs shortly after midnight. Then, about 4 a.m. when the Japs were comfortably in bed again, the Fortresses began coming...
...frantic by spiraling inflation, still far from driving the Japs into the sea, menaced by the turmoil in India, China still has many li to travel before achieving unity and victory. But it has been over a year since there were any serious clashes with Chinese Communists in the northeast and north. The far reaches of the nation in the great Northwest were apparently more secure than at any time since the Manchu empire. The Chiangs could be pleased. They awaited Wendell Willkie's visit, remembering as they did on their own trip to the great Northwest that...