Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politically, sentimentally, in prestige, Paris would be a tremendous victory. But militarily, Paris was a tactical objective, already partly taken. Paris was the hub from which rail and road spokes radiated all over northern France; to the south, west and northwest most of them had already been cut. Its further importance was that it was a center of wire communications and administration, a storehouse of German arms. Its ring of airfields could be quickly put to Allied use. But Paris as a strictly military victory was overshadowed by one behind it and one beyond...
...there was still much more work on the West Coast than back home. In Seattle, Boeing needs 4,000 workers. In Portland the Kaiser shipyards need 11,500. In the great Northwest the logging industry needs...
...minded Canada last week made a down payment on her future in the air. The Dominion announced that she would repay the U.S. the millions of dollars which the U.S. Army had poured into 35 Canadian airfields and flight strips. These opened up the northeast and the northwest air passages linking America to Europe and to Asia...
...Northwest Gateway. The other airfields stretch from Edmonton to the Alaskan boundary. They are likely to be in heavy use in the postwar air age. Over them in the last two years nearly 5,000 Lend-Lease planes have been ferried to the Soviet Union. The route passes over rugged mountain country where the temperature in winter sometimes drops to 70 below. But the airway is relatively free of the fogs and rain that blanket the Pacific Coast from Puget Sound to the Aleutians. And it is the shortest practical route to Siberia and the coast of Asia...
...flanking movement northwest of the city sent some units to the smaller town of Gozha. On this front they were only 40 miles from East Prussia proper, only two miles from the Suwalki triangle, which the Germans annexed to East Prussia...