Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roaring through the suburbs of Argenteuil and Neuilly, they entered the swank west end of Paris and swung into the broad Avenue de Neuilly leading to the Arc de Triomphe and Champs-Elysees. Another column raced in from St. Denis in the northeast. Horse-drawn supply trains clopped across the Place de la Concorde (see cut, p. 21). No single tank or Nazi warrior passed under the famous Arc because that honor was reserved for Adolf Hitler when he should make his triumphal entry...
...loan of $1,427,000 to Atlas Powder Co. for a new plant (TIME, March 25). But last week, while the most explosive battle in world history brought hell back to the Somme, the Allies announced a really big project: a $20,000,000 powder plant ten miles northeast of Memphis, Tenn., near the village of Millington...
Wrote Louis Lochner, as he passed through desolate towns laid waste by Nazi bombers: "In no Belgian community through which we have crossed this week . . . have I noticed more hatred in people's eyes than in Aerschot, ten miles northeast of Louvain. . . . I suppose the population takes me for a German. If looks could have killed, I would be a corpse today. . . ." Said a Belgian woman, wife of a soldier at the front, to Frederick Oechsner: "I must say the attitude of the German soldiers has been very correct and orderly...
...Liege and the Meuse below it, slanting across north of Namur to reach the Flanders plain and drive for Louvain and Brussels, the French took action. They sent in their own tank regiments. Around the highway junction of St. Trond one fine May day, and around Gembloux, 100 miles northeast of the Somme where nine British tanks first surprised the Germans 25 years ago, it was reported that 1,500 to 2,000 tanks milled, in scenes which, from the air, looked like a giant's parking lot gone mad. Both sides claimed the best...
...four of his country's 400,000 soldiers was killed, the Royal Guard 80% wiped out. Military men had difficulty believing these high figures, concluded they must have included deaths anticipated if the fighting had gone on. When it stopped, the Dutch, who had given up the northeast half of their country with little resistance and retired in good order from their first line of defense along the Ijssel River, still held their Grebbe Line (second defense) and Holland Water Lines (third). They had mopped up most of the parachutists in and around Amsterdam. They still had The Hague...