Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter sports still have a last lap to go. There will be swimming in the Blockhouse this weekend, basketball at the Arena, and hockey a little over 100 miles to the southwest...
...Severe drought in the Southwest which made deserts of range country...
...knew the answer. Li had almost nothing with which to bargain with the Red armies who at week's end stood within 15 miles of China's capital, Nanking. The government was preparing to move to Canton on the south coast and its armies were pulling southwest toward Kweilin and south toward Chekiang Province...
...Despite the laggards, the overall expansion of big & little business was remolding the U.S. industrial face. The greatest growth was in the Midwest, which seemed more & more like the industrial heartland (in Peoria, a barbershop proudly advertised: "Joe's place is a two-chair shop now"). In the Southwest, another empire was abuilding...
...with government forces to the south (TIME, Dec. 13). By last week one entire group-General Sun Yuan-Hang's Sixteenth, with 40,000 men-had been completely wiped out. The remaining troops were huddled into an area ten miles in diameter of flat, marshy land 50 miles southwest of Suchow...