Word: southward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successive nights and mornings, the Air Corps' Brig. General Arnold N. Krogstad sent Boeing B-17 ("Flying Fortress") and Douglas B18 bombers flying 180 miles southward from Langley Field, Va., to Fort Bragg. Ordered to fly at 4,000 feet the first night, to accustom the observers, bombers later went up to 18,000, 20,000 and 24,000 feet heights now practicable thanks to a new, secret bomb sight. Without fail, civilian groundlings heard or saw, got warnings to Fort Bragg within three minutes. On a headquarters defense map, lighted in red and green, winking bulbs "tracked...
...Reich would never "back down" on the Czech problem. Goebbels, addressing a crowd estimated at 175,000, shouted-"We declare categorically and irrevocably that we want the Sudeten Germans and their land returned to us. We will get it, one way or another." Goebbels spoke as Bitier was speeding southward to Munich to confer with the Premiers of Britian, France and Italy on new proposals for solving the Czech crisis peacefully...
...Driving southward behind the heaviest prolonged artillery and air bombardment put down in Spain's two-year-old civil war, Rightist forces of Generalissimo Franco, aiming for Valencia, last week burst and flattened a Leftist balloon-shaped salient of some 200 sq. mi. in their lines, advanced to within 34 miles north-west of their goal...
Principal Japanese fear was that the flooding Yellow would reach a long arm southward to the Yangtze, itself within five feet of overflowing and not yet at its mid-summer peak from melting mountain snows. Between them the two swollen rivers could completely swamp the Japanese offensive on Hankow, which was not going too well in any case. Early in the week the invaders had taken a giant stride nearer Hankow by capturing Anking, capital of Anhwei Province. When they ordered the U. S. Government to clear the 200-mile stretch of the Yangtze from Wuhu to Kiukiang for their...
...reason Solomon's port remained so long hidden is that it is a half-mile inland from the present coast. The prevailing winds from the north carry heavy burdens of sand, which have built up the shore and extended it slowly southward into...