Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Next? In Tacoma, Wash., agitated by a temporary shortage of toilet paper throughout the papermaking Northwest, wholesalers started a "Share the Roll" campaign...
...Sultan is the nominal autocrat of three countries, in each of which somebody else is the real boss: French Morocco, the northwest shoulder of Africa; Spanish Morocco, its epaulet; and Tangier (overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar), the chip on the shoulder...
First objective was Küstrin, fortress town guarding Berlin's eastern approaches. The Germans said one column had cut south of the town and driven to within 26 miles of Berlin, then had been stopped and hurled back seven miles. A second column stood northwest of Küstrin within 29 miles of Berlin. Other Russians fought their way into the town in house-to-house combat. For six days the battle raged. Then came Marshal Joseph Stalin's order of the day: Küstrin had fallen, the German capital's outer gate was unlatched...
Hard-drinking U.S. synthetic rubber and smokeless powder plants, which in 1944 downed about 90% of the domestic sugar, grain and molasses alcohol supply, have been searching feverishly for more & more industrial alcohol spigots. Almost equally fervent has been the Pacific Northwest's hunt for new industries with postwar prom ise. Last week, in one happy stroke, the Government got its spigot and the North west its new industry...
...baby to buy it from DPC after the war. Progressive Bellinghamites, envisioning a plant that may turn out anything from hair tonic to gin, as waste-pulp possibilities are explored, feel the plant may be the luck of their one-industry town, and a white hope of the whole Northwest...