Word: southward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distance of Paris. France was in a panic. General Petain called for U. S. aid. General Pershing rushed the 2nd and 3rd Divisions forward to meet the German onslaught. The 3rd Division met the enemy in Chateau-Thierry (May 31), blocked his advance at the bottom of the bulge southward. The 2nd Division cleared Belleau Wood (June 25). This defensive engagement cost the A. E. F. 9,500 casualties. More than fighting, the U. S. contributed new morale to the French troops who turned in their tracks and stood off the invaders in the Second Battle of the Marne...
...frantic, bucking efforts to escape, and leave it dead. Reports began to come in: 125 mules killed in Coahoma County alone. There two days later were 400 mules and cattle dead. Around Helena, Ark., 500 farm animals expired in the lowlands. More & more deaths were recorded to the southward...
...patrol. The patrol, which was established as a result of the celebrated Titanic disaster, is commissioned to sail up and down the shipping lanes of the North Atlantic, charting the location and drift of icebergs. Every spring about three or four hundred of these huge birds come drifting southward from the glaciers of Greenland. It is the duty of the international ice patrol to keep watch and give each vessel passing through the ice areas all information possible concerning the location' and drift of the bergs...
Greatest of natural gas pipe lines will be the $40,000,000, 1,250-mi. line started by Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. last June (TIME, June 9). It starts at Amarillo, Tex., runs eastward to Indiana, branches southward to Kentucky. Last week a new and potent partner joined hands with M-K in this development. A half interest in all of the pipe line's operating properties (with exception of its Kentucky and Indiana units) was sold to Columbia Oil & Gasoline Corp., Columbia Gas & Electric Corp...
...defeated only by the aid of the friendly Crees. "Dad," the last of the trio to die, confesses to a shooting with which Lige was charged and advises Lige to leave the plains while he may. But Lige stays the winter with the Crees. After a trip southward and a disillusionment with civilization, by way of two robberies and a spree, he goes back to the Marias again, where there is more sky and a sweet Cree girl awaiting him. What lifts it out of the genre of Western stories is the sketching of the old Indian-surrounded life, especially...