Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meteorologists explained that a low pressure area trapped over southern New Mexico by a high pressure to the north and northeast caused the storm last week. Temperature two degrees higher would have stopped the ice. A high wind would have broken the spell. But for 48 hours nothing happened. The region seemed deserted. An airline pilot making the first flight over the Panhandle two days after the storm reported that there were no signs of life, no cars on the highways and no trains seen operating, only a few lights showing in Amarillo's business district...
...Australian and New Zealand troops were going, too, though Britain denied this, saying her only ground troops in Greece were military police and air-base guards. But besides military help, Greece was going to need food, fuel, money. Over her loomed not only the shadow of Germany on the northeast but cold and hunger at home...
From two widely separated spots in the Atlantic-425 miles west of Eire and 500 miles northeast of Puerto Rico-two British freighters last week each reported sighting "a suspicious vessel." The Port Hobart, in the south, later reported she was being shelled, then fell silent. The Trehata, in the north, was not heard from again. The British Navy, busy searching for the killer who sank the gallant Jervis Bay on Nov. 5, could only conclude that not one but two German raiders were on the loose...
...wooded peninsula northeast of Baltimore, between the Bush and Gunpowder Rivers, is not so peaceful as it looks. Edgewood Arsenal is there. There also is the Army's Chemical Warfare School. Last week 24 National Guard officers reported there to study and practice defenses against war's most forbidding weapon. They joined 24 others in the first National Guard gas class since the Guard was mobilized for a year's field training...
Focsani, 100 miles northeast of Bucharest and the epicentre of the quake, was reported in ruins; Galatz, site of the German submarine base, suffered severely; and Giurgiu, principal oil port on the Danube, saw public buildings and factories reduced to mangled heaps. In Campina, thickly populated oil town, refinery chimneys toppled, houses collapsed, and pipelines burst, dousing the ground with a gummy and inflammable threat. In the heavily guarded Ploesti field a few fires broke out, were later reported extinguished. Buckled tracks, collapsed bridges, severed telephone cables and German censorship stopped traffic and disrupted communications throughout Rumania, prevented the true...