Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another great battle was coming in the south Pacific. The United Nations had reports that a Jap task force was assembling in the Marshall Islands, a round 2,500 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor, 2,100 from Australia's northern tip. From there the Jap could hit at the U.S.-Australia supply line, at the islands (close to that route) east of Australia, or even at Pearl Harbor itself. From there also he could sweep down and join the New Guinea-New Britain forces in an assault on Australia...
...second* opera under its Composers' Theater plan for opera suitable for colleges and little theaters, i.e., easily cast and staged. Commission for the libretto went to his close friend Paul Horgan, poet, novelist, artist, author of the Harper prize novel, The Fault of Angels, other fiction about the Southwest. The resulting A Tree on the Plains is a musically modest opera, occasionally rising to heights of beauty, mainly important as a signpost that opera is turning from an exotic plant into a wayside flower, part of the American scene...
...lower reaches of the southwest Pacific, where he had been successful beyond belief, the Jap still had a lot of unfinished business on his books. Until Douglas MacArthur and his Australian and Dutch allies were richer in the specie of war, they would have to be content with joggling the Jap's elbow and spilling ink over the accounts on the most profitable page of his ledger...
There he sent them into brilliant but unavailing raids and battles over the Indies, the Java Sea, the Strait of Macassar. His fighter protection dwindled, almost vanished. Feb. 17, Brereton and Lieut. General George H. Brett, the top U.S. (and Allied) air commander in the southwest Pacific, agreed that Brett would take the remaining U.S. planes and crews to Australia; Brereton would fly with Britain's General Wavell to India, and there build a force to strike at Japan through China. It was a momentous decision, doubtless reached only after consultation with Washington and London...
...first time ever, the Navy is building a training station in the rough-&-tumble Rocky Mountains. The site: Bayview, Idaho, a quiet several-horse town at the southwest end of Lake Pend d'Oreille, some 45 miles northeast of Spokane. Last week, as the citizens of Bayview (pop. 104) stood by goggle-eyed, the first of 10,000 carpenters, masons and plumbers were busily at work on a $20,000,000 base...