Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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East Try, West Try. First they attacked Malaya's east coast. This attack had just two foci and two aims. Beachheads were established at Kota Bahru, in the extreme northeast, and at Kuantan, about 200 miles north of Singapore. These two places are the keys to east coast transportation, Kota Bahru being the only rail-sea junction along the whole coast, Kuantan the only highway-sea junction, except in the extreme south...
...irregularly traced, winding streets. It is remarkably self-sufficient. Its industry, 14% of all Russia's, is doing all it can for defense. Its water supply is so far safe: the great Uchinsk Reservoir, 16 miles north of the city, the older Mytischi mineral springs system, ten miles northeast, and the Rublievo river-water system, ten miles west, are all still out of the enemy's reach. Its sources of electrical power lie farther afield, but they are well scattered and, so far, only slightly hampered...
...days, and the bulk of this movement will start Dec. 13, before the civilian peak. On that night, solid trainloads of troops will start to highball through the railroad gateways at Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago, thence fan out like Panzer divisions to all parts of the Northeast, where nearly half the men live...
...from 30 to 50% energy-conversion, was greeted by powermen last week as one more potent argument against President Roosevelt's long dreamed-of St. Lawrence seaway-power project, which would threaten with a sceptre-like "yardstick" the great privately owned, steam-powered utility systems of the industrial Northeast. Utilitymen regard the new turbine as a symbol, great as the monumental dams of the several power Authorities, that their own spirit of technological pioneering is not moribund, as friends of Government power claim. As a sound dollars-&-cents weapon against Government control, it reaffirms Thomas Edison's remark...
...northeast Wyoming, near Sundance, one day last week, Parachutist George Hopkins leaped out of an airplane to win a $50 bet. The problem was to collect. For George Hopkins landed, as the bet prescribed, on Devil's Tower. A lava blister, formed by an eruption 20,000,000 years ago, Devil's Tower is a gigantic rock stump rising 1,200 feet into the sky. Teddy Roosevelt made it the country's first national monument. Its weathered sides are fluted, nearly vertical, practically unscalable...