Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These men and others like them had gone into northern Canada in mid-summer 1942 to build and maintain air bases on the "Northeast Staging Route to Europe." They had manned the $1,700,000 runways, barracks and hospital at The Pas, the $9,300,000 establishment at Churchill on the west shore of Hudson Bay,* the $7,000,000 base at Southampton Island's Coral Harbor (socalled because of the tropical fossils found there). But the great air ferry route was hardly used: the route via Labrador and Iceland proved more feasible. The first...
...last week. He dropped in at his uncle's house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The family were all away, but White House Secretary Matthew Connelly, who had had word from the President that the sergeant might arrive, bowed him in, put him up in the northeast bedroom...
...thanks to the planes they got back from the Army, were doing very well. The 16 major domestic lines upped their gross some 50% in the first five months this year, managed to up net profits to $8,617,000 from $5,666,000. Only two airlines, Colonial and Northeast, lost money...
...Leslie ("Holy Terror") Morshead, onetime schoolmaster and hero of the siege of Tobruk, the 7th Division had secured the vital Balikpapan area within three weeks of its invasion. Last week the 7th beat down bitter resistance to take another first-rate military prize: the Sambodja oil field, 28 miles northeast of Balikpapan and one of the three major producing areas of eastern Borneo...
...noon fog that hung over Huron's southern tip promised trouble. But for the first few hours there was only an innocent breeze to nudge the racers along the 243-mile course from Port Huron to Mackinac Island. Shortly after midnight, the storm swooped down from the northeast. Freakish gusts hit the fleet headon, built mountains of water that swirled 20 feet high...