Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many parts of the country, such as the Northeast, there was never much erosion, and most of this has been checked. The cotton-growing South, notorious for its stripped and deserted farms, has had a real agricultural rebirth. There are still obstinate farmers who cling to land-wrecking practices (and will surely pay for it), but the face of the South has changed. If Jeeter Lester were to shamble back to Tobacco Road, he'd never know the place...
...Hurry. But China's chief worry last week was her military future, on which everything, including her economy, depended. That was worse than dim (see FOREIGN NEWS). Communist forces had overrun just about all of northeast China, were extending a throttling grip on the whole nation...
...request was apparently sent out by Paris stations to northeast United States receivers, but WHRV was the first to pick it up. They passed the word to the Associated Press, which in turn spread it over its wire services...
Veteran tuna fishermen from all over the northeast had to bow to Rodman A. Sharp '51 recently when he handed the season's biggest fish--an 850-pound bluefin at Wedgeport, Nova Scotia...
...Walrus. From the U.S. airports Rhein-Main and Wiesbaden the planes head for Darmstadt. Then they turn northeast for Aschaffenburg and then pick up the Fulda radio range. After Fulda they can fly either on the northeast leg of the Fulda radio range or the southwest Leg of the Tempelhof range. In the Russian zone, just past Eisenach, Hensch's plane flew over one of the Red army training grounds. There were tank tracks through the fields and vehicles lined up next to the forest. Said Hensch: "I'd like to come over here with 20,000 pounds...