Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North toward the Orient, on the shortest possible line from Chicago to Vladivostok, U.S. warplanes roar over one of the most important air routes in the world: the northwest passage across Canada to Alaska and beyond. In Parliament last week Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe announced that air-minded Canada would pay the whole shot ($58,500,000) for her sector of this line...
Only five days after his task force had struck savagely at Truk Rear Admiral Marc Mitscher was hitting the Japs again: this time the Marianas Islands, 650 miles northwest of Truk, 1,400 miles south of Tokyo, were the targets...
...beyond denying Truk the defense to which it was entitled, the Japs didn't seem to want to fight at Saipan, Tinian, Guam-bastions far to the northwest of Truk. Rear Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's carrier forces hit these bases and Truk within the space of five days (see col. 3), probably without returning to base to refuel or rearm...
Wendell Willkie turned homeward from his Northwest campaign swing. The real news of his trip was that he had found in the West a road to Republican unity...
This pattern, arrived at on Tarawa, improved on Kwajalein, was last week perfected on Eniwetok, a roughly circular atoll 379 miles northwest of Kwajalein. Through Eniwetok the Japs had been staging their airplane supply to the Marshalls...