Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shore of Lake Laatokka lies the busy sawmill town of Sortavala, strategically as important a town as there is in all of Finland. Sortavala is the junction of two railroads, one leading north to Finland's waist, which the Russians have been trying to cut, the other going southwest to Viipuri and the Mannerheim Line, which the Russians have been trying to storm. Through this town pass Finnish troops withdrawn from one front to reinforce the other. If Russia had Sortavala, the mobility of the Finnish Army would be dangerously curtailed and Russia would have a railroad on which...
Japan's Army began its week of bungles by warning the French owners of the vital Haiphong-Yunnan Railway, which aside from the Burma highway is the last uninterrupted trade route into Southwest China, to stop supplying China within two weeks, or else have every bridge bombed...
...Thousands of reindeer were driven southwest through Lapland, to be slaughtered for the Army...
...warmer comment in the U. S. than: "It's about time"; 2) It looked more & more as though a "non-treaty situation" would exist after Jan. 26, when the abrogated Treaty of 1911 lapses; 3) Although the Army in China was having episodic successes in Lanchow and the Southwest, war still dragged on; 4) At home Japan had a severe shortage of rice and fuel...
Florida's 96-day racing season starts with 17 days at Tropical Park, ten miles southwest of Miami, continues with a 46-day meeting at swank Hialeah Park, six miles northwest of Miami, winds up with a 33-day return engagement at Tropical. Last week 10,000 Miami visitors flocked to Tropical Park to see the 1940 U. S. horse-racing season break from the barrier. Meanwhile U. S. railbirds from coast to coast pored over the 1939 betting results, posted by United Press...