Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maybank put Charleston back on its feet financially. But his political career really in in 1935, when as chairman of South Carolina's Public Service Authority he sponsored a PWA power project on the big, clay-red, ambling Santee River, which empties into the sea some 45 miles northeast of Charleston...
...Uruguayan Government this week completed plans for the biggest naval air base south of the Panama Canal. To be built on Laguna Negra, a lake close to the Atlantic Coast, 160 miles northeast of Montevideo, it will command the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, a wide sweep of the South Atlantic. It will be constructed with U.S. funds lent and given to Uruguay for national defense. Like other Uruguayan ports, Laguna Negra Base will be open to U.S.. forces in case of war with the Axis...
...greatest auroras borealis to hit the northeast U.S. in a quarter of a century. It dazzled gapers one night last week from New Mexico to Maine, south to Atlanta. In places in the latitude of New York the display covered the entire sky from horizon to horizon. Astronomers, noting an unusual sunspot outbreak two days before, were prepared. But radio men were...
Brilliant Nazi Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt had smashed across the Dnieper at two points. He drove southward from the Gomel sector and took Chernigov, 80 miles to the northeast of the Ukraine's capital, Kiev, whence he was in excellent position to get in Kiev's rear, and complete its encirclement (see map). Even more dangerous to Russian hopes was his capture of Kremenchug, 160 miles to Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten...
...interest to Freshmen and shown on this map are the Cambridge Post Office, on Brattle Square; and Radcliffe, Harvard's sister college, which lies off to the northeast, beyond the Law School...