Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German troops moved up to the frontier of Turkey, 150 miles northeast of Istanbul, the whole Near East, as well as Greece, was threatened by the Axis. If Adolf Hitler fails to take Britain this year, he will have to go east for oil. If he does take Britain, there will be a scramble for Britain's Eastern protectorates and possessions. Last week General Maxime Weygand hurried to Vichy to see Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and discuss, among other things, Syria. Last week, coincident with the German move through Bulgaria, Russia sent troops into the Caucasus, from which point...
...seemed to many a layman a wild charge: that some of the accidents, if not all, were due to CAA's reorganization. The documentation came from the new Civil Aeronautics Board itself. In its analytical report of the crash of a United Air Liner on Bountiful Peak, northeast of Salt Lake City, last November (TIME, Nov. 17), CAB frankly admitted the probable cause of the accident: the Salt Lake City radio range going out of whack before United's veteran pilot, Howard Fey, started to let down through a snowy overcast. More, CAB cited a miserable record...
...just west of Lambert-St. Louis Field. A few minutes before, the airport radio had given veteran Pilot P. T. W. Scott the St. Louis weather. The ceiling was down to the bare CAA minimum: 400 feet. There were scattered clouds at 200, visibility was two miles. Wind: north northeast 6 (miles an hour). With eleven passengers behind in berths and seats, Captain Scott and his co-pilot had a job on their hands that has long since ceased to worry good airmen: an instrument landing...
...fashioned travelogue, it was to have a central story (man's struggle against Arctic cold and hunger), a cast of characters (Nanook and his family). He persuaded John Revillon and Thierry Mallet, of the famed fur-trading Revillon Freres, to back an expedition to Cape Dufferin on the northeast coast of Hudson...
...more interesting than numbers alone was Britain's speculative distribution of the German Armies. Surprising was the strength to the northeast (50 divisions in Poland, four in Moravia), the relative weakness of the Balkan front (five in Rumania, 25 pooled in Austria). Most significant was the concentration along the western front: all attack troops, nearly two-thirds of Germany's total 224 divisions massed in Norway, western Germany, the Lowlands and France. If the British had guessed right, it could mean only one thing: a full-out attack across the Channel...