Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the northeast quarter of the arsenal was glassed in, the floor was laid and the first of the equipment was rolling into the building on railroad flatcars. The steelwork was about 90% complete and glaziers were on the heels of the steelmen in the rest of the building. Major Kadlec could proudly announce that the arsenal, complete with powerhouse, office, hospital building and test track, would be ready on schedule, April...
...feet Andy McDonough put on his oxygen mask, circled to the northeast, making a mental note to stay away from the field so that he wouldn't "mess up the airport" if the dive wasn't a success. At 27,000 feet he was 15 miles northeast of the field. The outside thermometer registered 33 below. To the northwest, 25 miles away, he could see Niagara Falls. He called the ground: "... will dive from west to east." Then he turned on the fixed movie camera, focussed on the faces of his instruments-altimeter, clock, airspeed indicator, thermometer...
...last week. Klisura had been captured. This was the first important Greek accomplishment since the taking of Argirocastro on Dec. 9. The Italians had set up a defense sector hinged on Tepeleni and Klisura. Tepeleni blocked the road to the vital port of Valona, Klisura the road to Berat, northeast of Valona. Having broken through at Klisura, having driven the Italians from "naturally formidable" mountain positions, the Greeks pressed...
...palace into an old folk's home ("we keep too many gardeners to grow too many vegetables to feed too many servants to make too many beds"); the 1937 move by a group of bishops and clergy to give up the mining royalties of the poverty-stricken northeast of England which went to the Church, because otherwise it "cannot hope to evangelize successfully a body of men [miners] who are strongly prejudiced against the sources of its supply...
...wireless or I will shoot mast down. I am going to shoot at stores and phosphate jetties." This message, flashed ashore by lamp signals, was received one dawn last week on Nauru, a tiny British-mandated atoll just under the equator, 2,000 miles northeast of Australia. The sender was a merchantman raider which, just before making good its threat, hauled down the Japanese flag, ran up the Nazi swastika. None of Nauru's 3,400 inhabitants (194 Europeans) was hurt, but warehouses and platforms loaded with Nauru's main product-guano (seabird droppings) for explosives and fertilizer...