Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deer," or on anything else. . . . There may be something in some local deer that makes cougar bigger in some areas of the country. I don't know. I do know that the biggest "lion" yet killed by a family of brothers who hunt them professionally in three southwestern states and northern Mexico was several inches under eight feet long. These men have killed quite a few lions, too-only they lay their lions on the ground and measure them with a steel tape. Knowing some lion hunters myself, my guess is that any "nine-or-ten-foot" lions were...
...Near the southwestern end of the Allied line across Italy, the town of Cassino nestles at the base of holy, historic Mount Cassino. There, Byzantine conqueror Belisarius paused on his way to Rome in 536; the Benedictine Order was founded in 529.* Forbiddingly fortified by the Germans, Cassino now straddles the road to Rome chosen by General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army. Last week, yard by yard, French, U.S. and Canadian troops advanced toward the ancient, strategic town...
...synchronized day-bombing offensive, targets along the French "rocket-gun coast" and in Germany itself were blasted. Two records were set in a day: 1) some 1,500 U.S. bombers and fighters, biggest U.S. air fleet ever sent to battle, struck 556 miles into southwestern Germany; 2) during that 24-hour period a stunning total of 3,000 Allied warplanes attacked German targets in the heartland and in France...
...emerging federations would have in common: 1) a primarily economic binder, customs unions rather than political mergers; 2) a need to look to Moscow for guidance in their external affairs, to Russia for much of their trade; 3)3 role to play in securing Russia's southwestern frontiers and thwarting German ambitions eastward...
Comptroller General Lindsay Warren, of North Carolina, plunged the Administration deep into hot water last week. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. in Kansas City, Mo. refused to accept a Federal contract if the regular clause forbidding racial or religious discrimination remained. In Comptroller General Warren's ruling he wrote that Franklin Roosevelt's order against such discrimination was not an order, that all Government contracting agencies can do is get the consent of contractors to abide by it. This ruling made the simmering fair-employment problem boil over and caused widespread speculation as to whether Franklin' Roosevelt...