Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, a combination sleet, snow, rain and windstorm began driving across 16 states of the Midwest and Northeast. It was a sneaky, sloppy storm, full of windy obscenities. Its rain turned snowy roads to frigid mush, it iced everything it touched and hexed everything it missed...
Lehavot HaBashan, a new collective agricultural settlement in the northeast corner of Palestine, will seen receive much needed scientific and agricultural information through the efforts of the Harvard Zionist Society...
Missing Territory. As winter set in, China's northeast (Manchuria) was more than nine-tenths gone already. The columns of Communist General Lin Piao were pulling back a few dozen li after a punishing six-week offensive there. The Communists had not attempted to storm cities like Mukden and Changchun. They had been satisfied with attrition and wreckage. Along 150 miles of Manchuria rail lines they had warped rails to uselessness over bonfires of railroad ties. They had carted away the Manchuria harvest, disrupted coal and electricity supplies. The winter of 1947-48 would be bitter in Mukden...
...Communists had even cracked south into Central China, after giving the bonfire treatment to long stretches of the vital Lunghai railway. One-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng and some 100,000 men were snug in the rugged Tapieh hills, just northeast of Hankow-a constant menace to the Yangtze valley...
...Corp., got title to the 1,254-mile, 24-in. Big Inch, and the longer (1,479-mile) but smaller (20-in.) Little Big Inch. Through them, Texas Eastern soon hopes to be pumping 433 million cubic feet of natural gas a day from Texas to the fuel-pinched Northeast...