Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that will roll off the ways of his Vancouver shipyards at the rate of six a month by the end of 1943. Bearing no gifts, but only urgent business, had come such men as Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, Lieut. General George C. Kenney, Allied Air Forces Commander in the Southwest Pacific...
...MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia--High military quarters said today there was "convincing evidence" that the Japanese were planning another stroke in the Southwest Pacific, possibly against Port Moresby, and it was admitted the Allies may make some aggressive move contemplated to upset the enemy's plans...
Taken together, these signs indicate a sharp flare-up in fighting in the Southwest Pacific may be near...
Full Circle. Pondering these matters, Douglas MacArthur this week (March 17) completes his first year in Australia. Just twelve months ago, clothed in the tragic glory of Bataan, he had come down from the skies to take command of United Nations forces in the Southwest Pacific. Australia would never forget the sight of him, striding confidently in his washed-khaki jacket, gold-braided cap and bamboo swagger stick, lifting Aussie hopes. His coming changed the country. His year changed...
...burden of war around the sun has carried also the daily routines of the old and ordinary life of these plain people. Before the furnace heat of the Indian spring, in this pre-monsoon season, the 110,000,000 Indian farmers wait in their countless villages for the southwest wind to bring the rains of June. One-sixth of the earth's people, with their 225 languages, their 2,300 castes and 39 provinces, are living through their ancient order of life, not touching the 44,000,000 untouchables, not harming the sacred humpback cattle, not marrying outside their...