Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indeed momentous were the beginnings made by the missionary of whom Author Gather wrote, Father John B. Lamy. He became Santa Fe's first bishop (in 1875 its first archbishop), mightily revived Catholicism's failing strength in the Southwest. Unlike the Bishop of Durango, he did not neglect the outlying parts of his jurisdiction. To Colorado in 1860 he sent another famed pioneer Catholic, Father Joseph P. Macheboeuf, first Bishop of Denver when it was still a village...
Army camps in the South and Southwest. It was the opening maneuver in a crucial U.S. railroad campaign. The roads were preparing, on top of rush civilian passenger traffic, to move at least 500.000 soldiers on an average-800-mile trip home for Christmas-the greatest long-distance passenger movement in railroad history...
HELSINKI--The Russians have been evacuating the Hango Naval base, 70 miles southwest of Helstaki, the last Finnish territory still occupied by Soviet forces, it was announced today...
...Rose Bowl: Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College.Last week the Aggies, in trampling Rice 19-to-6 strung up their eighthvictory in a row, raised their season's scoring total to 253 points (to 23 for their opponents). Next week the Aggies meet Texas in the big game of the Southwest...
...hodgepodge of Chinese, Russian and U.S. methods. In U.S. air schools, under Army-supervised private instructors, they will be taught to handle U.S. Lend-Lease bombers and fighters in the manner to which the planes have been accustomed. Anticipated output of Chinese airmen at Thunderbird, which is operated by Southwest Airways, Inc.: 200 Chinese trainees every 20 weeks...