Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minds again. General Sir Archibald Wavell, for better or for worse the most famous Allied commander in the whole war, was to take up a post difficult in more than one sense: Supreme Commander of all forces-sea, land and air-of all nations fighting the Japanese in the southwest Pacific area...
General Wavell's naval commander will be Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet. A good choice, certainly. The focus of all operations in the southwest Pacific is a British naval base, Singapore, but the greatest actual and potential naval power in the Pacific is U.S. power. And even the British are willing to admit that Tommy Hart is a progressive chap. His American colleagues think he is more than that; they think he is as tough of mind as he is wiry of body, that he is aggressive, independent, wide-awake (TIME...
...later at Mauban, the Jap put down another heavy force. It had tanks, and tanks were sent out to meet it. In a heavy engagement both sides suffered considerable losses on a battlefield between 60 and 75 miles from Manila. From Lamon Bay the Jap thrust toward the southwest, flung himself across the narrow peninsula south from Mauban to Tayabas...
...last week took its biggest single step yet toward future self-sufficiency in rubber. The Department of Agriculture okayed a $25,000,000 project to plant 45,000 acres in the Southwest with guayule (wa-yu-ley), a tough, sagebrush-like plant containing 20-22% pure rubber...
...from the Atlantic, bringing rain and fog-fog that covered the land from Maine to Florida, from Sandy Hook to the Mississippi, that grounded planes, made trains run late, and filled New York Harbor with the melancholy blare of foghorns and whistles. Another warm air mass moved from the Southwest bringing hot days to Florida, fog on the Gulf Coast, warm weather in Kansas (temperatures were ten to 15 degrees above normal). Another warm air mass moved inland from the Pacific...