Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trawling in close order through the choppy Skagerrak off the northwest tip of Denmark early one morning last week, five Swedish fishing vessels sighted three dark shapes approaching. The Swedes knew they were in international waters, knew their hulls were a bright blue and gold, knew their flags were flying. They saw that the newcomers were German minesweepers...
...Commission officially ordered ship builders to "take immediate steps to reduce total employment," unofficially asked them to cut their payrolls by about 14,000 (14%) by mid-September. Reason: even Boeing's Flying Fortress production is lagging for lack of some 9,000 workers (TIME, Aug. 2); the Northwest's vital lumber and food processing industries are also gravely understaffed...
...Bryansk falls, the Red Army can turn northwest toward Smolensk, the nerve center of the German defense sys tem on the central front. In the Nazi-owned Stockholm Dagsposten a Berlin correspondent reported: If the German Army is unable to hold the Russian advance, Germany will collapse. Not only Red soldiers but the Nazis were beginning to see the maiden's light...
...Germans were beaten in the Sicilian skies as decisively as they were beaten on the island's soil. Said Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, commander of the Northwest African Tactical Air Force: "[The Luftwaffe] has been knocked out of the skies so far as we are concerned." How completely the Allies dominated the seas was shown last week when a British task force steamed up to the Gulf of Naples, shelled naval installations there and returned without a scratch...
Baedeker calls Paddington "uninteresting," but a lot of people sniping at the Church of England have recently made London's northwest district the most embarrassingly lively parish in Britain. For much of the borough is a red-light district, much of its land is Church-owned...