Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...release all the details of their raids. But the Chinese at last had something to beam about. The Jap air force was staying on the ground-whether from fright or because its planes were busy elsewhere, no one knew. Therefore living habits in thousands of towns in southwest China could be, and were, changed. Stores and shops reopened...
Equally ominous was the indication in dispatches that when the Russian armies in the southwest received reinforcements last week, they came not from the rear but from the endangered central front...
Only events can fairly judge the Red Army and its commanders. And known events may be deceptive. Thus it was generally supposed that when Timoshenko did none too well in the early defense of Moscow last year, he was summarily shifted to his present front in the southwest to replace gay, heady Marshal Semion Budenny, who had done worse. But a German record presents another story: that Timoshenko asked Stalin to put him where he expected the decisive fighting to develop some day. That fighting had developed in south Russia last week...
...grab for railroads was part of a great imperial scheme. Temptingly within reach of the Japanese is the chance to establish a continuous rail line from Shanghai 3,800 miles southwest to Singapore...
...plants can produce each year 15 million pounds of dried vegetables, 285 million pounds of dried eggs, more than 170 million pounds of dry skim milk, eight million pounds of waterless soup, unmeasured amounts of citrus concentrate. There are 82 egg-drying plants, mostly in the Midwest and Southwest (in 1940 there were...