Word: outer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambiguous Empire. The most significant single thing about Japan's exploitation of East Asia is the differentiation between inner and outer zones of Empire. The inner zone roughly comprises the territory gained before Pearl Harbor, the outer zone the rest...
Prime Minister John Curtin, in a speech highlighting word from Washington of a growing air-naval battle in the southern Solomons, said the new Japanese moves made it necessary for the Government to "take every precaution to match the enemy on that outer fringo...
Bury the Dead. Last week, after a visit with other correspondents to the Stalingrad area, the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr gave the outer world its clearest view yet of what hit the Germans...
Before the Red Army had a chance to dig in, Leeb sent 300,000 men against the city's outer defenses. They were repelled by Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, whose forces included thousands of women and factory workers. During the next year the Germans hammered the city with 52 infantry, four motorized and four tank divisions, some 6,000 heavy guns, not counting thousands of machine guns, mortars and planes. Shells were lobbed into the city almost daily; hardly a day or night was free of air raids. Destroyed early in the siege were warehouses packed with a three-year...
...Beachy Head and roared at mast level up the Thames Estuary. The R.A.F. shot down 16, of which five fell before the cannon and machine guns of the Hawker Typhoon, one of Britain's newest and fastest (over 400 m.p.h.) fighters. Only six German planes penetrated the outer defenses of the capital, but one of them carried the bomb which caused the worst London school disaster...