Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side of the border, in Siberia, troops were also on the move, going westward and to the southwest. Russia, as well as Japan, had need of the seasoned soldiers who had stood guard in the northeast of Asia. If Adolf Hitler's legions ousted Great Britain from the Near East, an outlet to the Persian Gulf might be Russia's if she could take...
...step of the Army was to reorganize the GHQ Air Force, fighting arm of the Air Corps, into four air districts called Air Forces. The First Air Force covers the Northeast, most vulnerable quarter of the country, the Second the Northwest. The Third has the Southeast, the Fourth the Southwest...
...that of Britain's Fighter Command: to take the air when raids threaten, knock the enemy's bombers out of the skies. Last week, having assigned four flying major generals to command the Air Forces (Northeast, James E. Chancy; Northwest, John F. Curry; Southeast, Barton K. Yount; Southwest, Jacob E. Fickel), the Army announced its interceptor commanders: four brigadier generals-all slim and wiry, as pursuit pilots should...
...dune-strewn shore of Flour Bluf Peninsula twelve miles southwest of Corpus Christi, Tex. on the Gulf of Mexico, was once an old camp site where Indians buried their dead. Then it became the favorite hunting, fishing, and picnic grounds of Corpus Christians. Last week the scrub oak peninsula brislted with shiny white hangars, repair shops, buildings of all descriptions. In bright new classrooms, 52 pink-cheeked, khaki-clad youths got their initial instruction. Seventy-five more were due thi week. The U. S. Navy's biggest air station (70% completed) was open 16 months ahead of the original...
Currently many a Texan sings of national defense. On a single Southwest juke box may be found I'm Lending You to Uncle Sam (sung by Bonnie Blue Eyes), Oh! They're Makin' Me All Over in the Army (Dick Robertson). Tall, slow-talking Red River Dave (Dave McEnery), who has written 200 songs, lately got off I'd Rather Fight for My Country Than Fight With a Wife...