Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cherkassy lay on the middle Dnieper's right bank, and the approaches to it were swept by German gunfire. To the northwest spread dense, dark forests, infested by guerrillas...
Varied Sources. This war's generals come from varied beginnings: from the Reserve, from the National Guard, from civil life. Major General James H. Doolittle, commanding general of the Allied Strategic Air Force in Northwest Africa, was a professional soldier, resigned in 1930 and returned to duty from the Reserve. Brigadier General Hanford MacNider, on duty in the Southwest Pacific, was a Reserve officer. So was Brigadier General Julius Ochs Adler, vice president and general manager of the New York Times, now an assistant division commander overseas...
...example of the nationwide teacher shortage was seen last week in the school system of Laurens (rhymes with The Wrens), Iowa. This prairie town of 1,400 in the northwest grain area of the Hawkeye state has a consolidated school with about 460 kindergarten-through-high school pupils. Although the teachers' salary budget was boosted 10% for 1943 there have been months of lively candidate-hunting by School Superintendent W. C. Hilburn. These measures have not done much against wartime's many wage lures...
With the sea lanes to southern Alaskan ports open the year round, the southern half of The Road may not see much through traffic. Greyhound busses, operated for the Northwest Service Command, now run the thousand miles from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse, average 22 m.p.h. Trucks will continue to supply the big airport at Watson Lake, even with the pipeline punched through from Whitehorse-location of the refinery for oil from Norman Wells (TIME, Oct. 4). But no postwar commercial or tourist development now in sight will justify maintenance of this stretch of The Road...
...defense in the early days of the war, drew many a slam because critics blamed them for results stemming from inexperienced tactics, lack of radar and other cause? outside the aircraft's ability. From Feb. i, 1942 to June 30, 1943, P-405 in all theaters, including Northwest Africa, destroyed 560 enemy craft, damaged 128, while losing 204. Yet the P-4O, of which more than 10,000 have been built, has been surpassed by newei U.S. fighters, is finally being discontinued...