Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bowling northeast blizzard, perhaps the worst in 20 years, swept into New England last night, paralyzing rail, highway and ocean traffic and causing at least two deaths...
...northland, not only for its resources (nickel, copper, lumber, coal, reindeer, fish, fur), but in an ambitious effort eventually to open for year-round navigation the narrow passage of ice-choked water, now navigable only in summer, which fringes the tundras just south of the Arctic Pack. If that Northeast Passage were open. Russia would have an all-Russian sea route from its European frontier to the Pacific, 3,000 miles shorter than the 9,000-mile Odessa-Vladivostok route, and would fulfill a dream of Peter the Great's to make a place for Russia on the seas...
...summer of 1937, the Soviet icebreaker Sedov was doing exploration work in the Kara Sea and making a hydrological survey of the Laptev Sea, two links of the Northeast Passage (see map). In October, most of her work done, she was sent to the rescue of two other icebreakers, the Sadko and Malygin, icebound in the floes of the Laptev. Winter set in early that year, and on Oct. 23 the Sedov was fast in the ice too. Professor Rudolph Lazarevich Samoilovich. leader of the expedition, ordered the 217 men and women aboard the three ships to settle down...
...week long the Russians pounded at the Finnish lines along the Aittojoki and the Kollaanjoki (joki is Finnish for river), northeast of Sortavala. They fought valiantly, desperately, for behind them the Finns were beginning to close in, ahead of them the Finns had already trapped two divisions of their comrades. These two beleaguered Russian divisions were at Kitela, only 24 miles east of Sortavala, and had been there for weeks. Using the same tactics that had won at Suomussalmi (TIME, Jan. 22), the Finns had first retreated, then made a stand at Kitela, while encircling forces cut the Russian supply...
Shells from the Finnish Fort Mantsi barred their retreat by road. And to the northeast, between the trapped divisions and their would-be rescuers, the woods were full of Finns. The relief forces, reported to be led by Russia's famed, swashbuckling Marshal Simeon Budenny, pounded the Finns' granite defense lines with artillery until the frozen earth was a morass of mud and slush, but every time they tried to break through they were caught in a murderous cross fire. As the Russian attacks grew weaker, the Finns took the offensive, capturing tanks and armored cars. Russian casualties...