Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington had been hot and steamy. But ever since morning the Presidential C-54 had bored steadily westward. Now, off in the cool Northwest evening, Harry Truman could see the dark green of fir forests, the snowy, glacier-scarred bulk of Mount Rainier. When the plane landed at McChord Field, his old Senate friend, Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren, was waiting. Together they drove to the lawn-bordered red brick governor's mansion at Olympia. Then, for five days, Harry Truman forgot the cares of office...
...home islands against invasion day with raw materials from North China, Manchuria and Korea. U.S. analysts concluded last week that Japan now had only a single unbroken line of communication with the mainland -the one from northeastern Korean ports, across the Sea of Japan, to small ports on the northwest coast of Honshu. The great funnel through which the lifeblood of imports was once transfused into Japan was already fouled with wrecked ships sunk by U.S. forces...
Died. Rear Admiral Forrest B. Royal. 52, stocky commander of amphibious op erations in this month's Brunei Bay invasion of northwest Borneo, veteran of Leyte and Luzon, onetime secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff; of coronary thrombosis...
...hundred warships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet stood in to Brunei Bay in northwest Borneo. Off went the landing craft, with less than a division of hardbitten, hard-swearing Australian veterans. One week later, with spectacular ease, they had conquered a major harbor, three airfields, three towns, two islands and a peninsula. With minor losses, they had given General Douglas MacArthur a military base midway between Manila and Singapore, virtually choked off the South China Sea and opened new fields for Allied bombers. After two visits ashore, the General exulted: "Rarely was such a strategic prize obtained at such...
...writing a corny, folksy "homemaker's" column. P-I circulation spurted; so did advertising. The Boettigers became Cham ber of Commerce favorites, because they helped bring big federal construction projects to Seattle. Their New Deal editorials won them labor's friendship ; their obvious love for the Pacific Northwest won almost everybody else. The hardest-bitten skeptics came to agree that ex-Chicago Trib-uneman Boettiger put out a good paper...