Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earth. Under normal circumstances low pressure areas known as "cyclonic storms" (not necessarily of "cyclonic" velocity and violence) swing periodically across the land from west to east, sucking in and mixing hot and cold winds, producing rain. This year such beneficent disturbances did not cease, but they apparently moved northward from their normal track to the Hudson's Bay area of Canada where plenty of rain has fallen. Why these cyclonic storms shifted north no man knows for sure. One guess is that an interrelation exists between the moon's long-range variations and its consequent effect...
Turksib (Amkino). Two shining steel rails creep northward under a round bonfire sun into the desert where skinny Mongolians pile up the sand to support them . . . northward into frozen ground, over mountain beds torn out by dynamite, on trestles over glacial rivers. Turksib is a translation of the Russian nickname for the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad, 897 mi. long joining Siberia and Turkestan (TIME, May 12). As Director Sergie Eisenstein dramatized modern brains coming into Russian farm country (TIME, May 19), so now Director Victor Turin tells the story of the building of the Turksib. Turin's newsreel is less interesting...
...tunnel. Since it runs from Denver to Salt Lake City, the 175-mile saving would be made on its line. At present, in order to reach Salt Lake City over reasonable grades the D. R. G. W. must strike due south from Denver 119 miles and then retraverse northward the entire distance before reaching Salt Lake City. The Moffat tunnel would cut off this useless north-and-south loop. Since stock ownership of the D. R. G. W. is shared between the Western Pacific and the Missouri Pacific, these two roads have been brought within the scope of speculation...