Word: southwesterner
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...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...
...Equally definite decisions have been made in the Pacific. General MacArthur clearly eliminated his southwestern theater as one of the chosen areas. That left two-Burma-Malaya, and the Central Pacific...
From the South, for example, we have graduates of Tulane, Southwestern, Southern Methodist, Louisiana State, Charleston, Centre, Baylor-the Universities of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee...