Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stop a manmade flood. The big man was redheaded, 300-lb. Leon Phillips, Governor of Oklahoma. The flood he was determined to stop would have been caused by the scheduled closing of the gates of gigantic, almost completed Grand River Dam, would have submerged 52,000 acres of northeast Oklahoma. Said Red Phillips, clamping down on his cigar and clamping down martial law on Grand River Dam: "I am moving the troops in before they get that dam in such shape that it will take dynamite to let the water...
...tentatively issued the following announcement: "The Soviet Government is believed to have planned the presentation of demands to Finland more far-reaching in character than those presented last autumn." Paris-Soir printed rumored Russian demands as telephoned from Stockholm: 1) the whole Karelian Isthmus, including Viipuri; 2) all territory northeast of Lake Laatokka, including Sortavala; 3) the northern part of Finnish Lapland, including Petsamo; 4) a naval base at Hanko, plus the whole Hanko peninsula. The demands were said to have been presented in the form of a 24-hour ultimatum. For that piece of reportage, no correspondents were permitted...
...long. Viipuri was condemned when the Finns abandoned Koivisto Fortress, blowing up their heaviest artillery and leaving the Russians a clear road across the frozen Gulf of Finland to outflank the city (TIME, March 4). Last week the Russians took this road. Another force drove past Viipuri to the northeast. And along what was left of three railroads the main body of the Red Army converged on its goal. The capital of Karelia, which was a Russian city from 1710 to 1918, was doomed to become Russian again. The Finns were holding it only to safeguard their withdrawal from...
...eating trees in Madagascar, nevertheless wrote and published Madagascar, the Land of the Man-Eating Tree. The Andean Land is a colorful two-volume work on his travels in South America. In The Earth Upsets, he announced that the earth's axis tips a mile to the northeast every year. ("The earth is a drunken staggering thing . . . the greatest acrobat that we have.") His present passions are botany, and a theory that the aurora borealis (still a scientific mystery) "is light sifted through clouds of sub-microscopic insects...
...sent down 30,998 tons of British shipping, which is more than the tonnage of the biggest U. S. merchantman afloat.† These shots were particularly happy ones for Germany, for the three ships sunk were the laden oil tankers British Triumph and Gretafield, both off Britain's northeast coast, and the refrigerator ship Sultan Star in the Bay of Biscay, fetching home 6,000 tons of Argentine beef. For Great Britain, however, these sinkings had grim recompense: the two U-boats responsible were soon sunk, arguing reckless desperation by Nazi commanders in their effort to counter-blockade Britain...