Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well as stop Vi. The targets were significant: the experimental stations at Peenemünde and Zinnowitz on the wooded Baltic coast (R.A.F. attacks there a year ago were officially credited with having delayed V-1 by six months); robot-parts plants at Friedrichshafen and Memmingen in southwest Germany; unnamed factories turning out special fuels for pilotless bombs; storage points in France and Germany for bombs and fuels. Part of the strategic pattern was a concentrated blasting of the Bayerische Motorenwerke (Munich), which makes robot propulsion engines. It was reported four-fifths destroyed...
There was another need before the final drive on Japan was begun: the ground forces had to have room to stretch themselves. General Douglas MacArthur, in the Southwest Pacific, was in the best position for such a move, and inching closer to the takeoff point. From westernmost New Guinea to Halmahera was an easy distance (200 miles) by the new U.S. Pacific standards; from Halmahera it is another short hop (400 miles) to Mindanao in the Philippines...
There are some curious variants in cinematic taste. In India recent heavy favorites have been Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky, both all-Negro musicals. In the Southwest Pacific the favorite film is Casablanca. Cover Girl, with Rita Hayworth, is a current favorite in Normandy. Documentaries are generally unpopular, but soldiers everywhere want more newsreels, even old ones, because of the glimpses they give of home. Many soldiers prefer old newsreels to new pictures, and a good old film still draws bigger G.I. audiences than a bad new one. In Rome, where a Red Cross movie...
...brigade was far ahead of schedule. The first goal of the combine owners had been to cut one million acres, from the Southwest to the Canadian border, between spring and fall. Last week they lifted the goal to 1½ million acres. Ahead spread the ripening grain in Nebraska, the still green fields of spring wheat in the Dakotas. The brigade could count on harvesting 50% more wheat because the combines had worked much more swiftly than, expected. Example: two brothers, L. D. and Joe Skinner, at Gruver, Texas, in one grueling day cut 100 acres...
...hundreds of the nation's essential trucks and busses are limping into garages-their heavy tires worn out, and no new ones available. From the great distances of the Southwest, one bus operator reported last week that from 25 to 50% of his equipment will be tied up within 30 to 60 days. Another trucker expects one-third of his units to be off the road by August 15. With new tires scarce, Michigan truckers sarcastically call their OPA tire-purchase certificates "hunting licenses." Nationally, the American Trucking Association says "day by day scores of trucks are going...