Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Fortunato Manure was one of some 200 Italians, ranging in rank from privates up to a Lieutenant-Colonel, who were captured by Madrid's defenders in five days of furious strife which badly broke the point of the so-called "Italian Spearhead" thrusting at Madrid from the northeast on the Guadalajara front...
...little triumph-if it creates over-optimism-may do harm." So hard had the Whites been stung northeast of Madrid, though they were getting an offensive under way from the south, that General Miaja doubtless feared the enemy would in exasperation use poison gas for the first time in Spain's present war. The White's blatant "Radio General" Queipo de Llano ominously broadcast that White Generalissimo Franco "has enormous supplies of gas, but will not use it, unless Madrid uses it first." In Moscow jubilant Izvestia cartooned an Italian general squealing from Spain to Mussolini for help...
...1870s, a Cassandra appeared on this happy scene in the person of Jay Gould, who dickered with Jefferson's soft-spoken businessmen about the possibility of putting through a branch of his Texas & Pacific Railroad to connect the city overland northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets...
...floods. Another flood factor was the migration of the Rockies boundary into the Pacific Ocean. This allowed low-pressure centres to swing all the way down the western U. S. before moving east. These centres thus picked up moist tropical air around the Gulf of Mexico, then carried it northeast and deposited the water in the flood valleys...
...track slowly toured a curious contraption on wheels followed by harrows and a screen. It was a '"cooker," like the ones used to melt asphalt on highways, with six blast torches to dry out the ground. At Santa Anita, called the world's best racetrack, 18 miles northeast of Los Angeles, all this was part of the world's richest horserace: the Santa Anita Handicap...