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WASHINGTON, June 15--Henry A. Wallace said today that the United States and Britain "would fight" if Russia should attempt to expand southward into Turkey in the vicinity of the Arabian oil fields and the Soviets should be told...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

After observing the glaciers and attempting to record their speed, the expedition, under the flag of the Chicago Geographical Society, will head southward in a race to clear Baffin Bay before icefields form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boucol, Roll to Ship Aboard 'Bowdoin' on Greenland Expedition | 5/27/1947 | See Source »

...when construction started, Interior Secretary Wilbur named it Hoover after his boss. When the Democrats moved in, Secretary Harold Ickes decided that Wilbur had had no right to rename the dam, changed it back to Boulder-despite the fact that the site had been shifted 20 miles southward to Black Canyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: The Restoration | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Barnard said that a mile away black smoke from six roaring fires billows 5,000 feet into the air, drifting southward out over the gulf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Texas Blast Kills Estimated 1200 As Nitrate Ship Explodes in Fire; No Phone Strike Compromise Seen | 4/17/1947 | See Source »

...could the mild-eyed creatures know, munching their hay in the ship's hold, that they were a token in a play of forces called history? History to a reindeer is the rising and the setting sun, begetting and dying, the north-and southward seasonal flight of birds. How could the two deer know that if a man named Hitler had never been born, if there had never occurred that crisis of European civilization one of whose phases is called Naziism, if the Germans had never invaded Norway, if the British had not come to help, they would still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Deer & Men | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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