Word: southwesterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destroyer was a Nazi hothead who could not control his trigger finger. Suspicion that a sharp order to other U-boat captains may have been issued by Berlin was aroused by the contrasting conduct of a captain who, last week, sank the British sugar freighter Olivegrove, 200 miles southwest of Bantry, Ireland. This captain ordered the freighter to heave to (by shots over her bow), and to disembark her men in lifeboats. He then lay to, checked the castaways' compass, offered them a tow toward the nearest land. After scuttling the lifeless Olivegrove with one well-aimed torpedo...
...American continent, that is now the United States of America, prior to the time that your forefathers were here. . . . This reflects no discredit upon you, or anyone else, as there are thousands of loyal American citizens who cannot trace their ancestry to the early Spanish colonists in the Southwest, or to the noble American colonists of Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. . . . We are Americans also, Mr. Editor...
...Poverty-stricken migrants, chiefly from Oklahoma (thus "Okies"), to California's promised land, where they worked as itinerant harvest hands, lived in filthy squatters' camps. The name is now applied to all refugee workers from the Southwest and Midwest dustbowls. For further information on California's migrant workers' woes and big land-grabbing agriculturists, see Factories in the Field by Carey McWilliams (Little, Brown, $2.50), out last month...
...original German plan provided that the First Army under Kluck was to pass through Belgium, shoulder the Belgian Army out of the war, march southwest of Paris across the Seine, protecting the German right flank. But in the uncertainty of movement and position, Kluck lost direction, veered toward Paris instead of circling southwest to envelop it. Sensing the significance of the German right wing's undershot, in the evening of August 25, Marshal Joffre's tactical adviser, a smooth, silent, chubby little 42-year-old officer named Maurice Gamelin had written out Joffre's historic Instruction No.2...
...clock one night last week, the U. S. Coast Guard Station at Jacksonville, Fla. picked up a spluttering S O S. Over the 600-metre radio band used by ships at sea came a frantic story of explosion, fire, death on the Elder Dempster (British) tanker Dunkwa, 90 miles southwest of Miami. Nobody waited to ask questions. Coast Guard cutters sped to sea, searched the calm Atlantic for miles around the given position. But no shipwreck could be found. Meantime, shipping experts ashore who knew the Dunkwa's, regular run, from Europe to West Africa, began to wonder...