Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nova Scotia. From there French fishermen still went out to the Grand Banks and there they built a mighty fortress at Louisburg. From Nantasket, Mass, in 1746 set forth 4,000 colonists under Lieut. General William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the northeast. It fell in a few weeks, was returned to France when King George's War (a Western Hemisphere overflow of Europe's War of the Austrian Succession) was settled. Ten years later Lord Jeffrey Amherst (hero of a famed college song) took it again with the help of famed...
...business of softening up the U. S. and Canada by air raids on their industrial plants, hydroelectric stations (the chief of which are shown on the map by dams) and on the rail network. If he could do so at will he might bring the industrial life of the northeast close to a standstill...
...correspondents who toured the Luftwaffe's fighting-base areas last week saw few signs of a land army poised to invade Great Britain. It might have been concealed in areas where they were not taken. It might even have been concentrated in Norway to strike Britain from the northeast while the air assault came from the southeast...
...performed there by the British after only two weeks of fighting against Italy's mechanized invasion. To Italy went 344,700 new subjects in 68,000 square miles of new territory which, while far from rich or productive, rounded out her total hold on Africa's northeast shoulder, rid her of a rear threat to further operations against the British in Egypt, Suez, Palestine, the Sudan and Kenya. Also to Italy went the first tangible victory in her war with Britain and a chance for Fascists to crow over a "Little Dunkirk...
...project. Last fortnight an armistice, commission ended Djibouti's state of siege,, opened to Italy its terminal of the strategic: railroad to Addis Ababa. But even without above-ground leadership, the Islamic followers of the late Lij Yasu can cause plenty of trouble, and somewhere in the northeast hills is Haile Selassie's ablest oldtime; general of all: Abebe Arragia, who learned! soldiering at France's strict Academy of; St. Cyr, who speaks Italian as well as French, prefers European clothes and weapons, but knows also bitter, native-style fighting...