Word: webs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long a nightmare to the U.S. State Department has been the Nazi airline web in South America (TIME, Jan. 27). German pilots fly regularly over 18,850 route miles, most of them in highly strategic territory, some of them just a short jump from the Panama Canal. But last week the web was weakening, looked as if it might, some day disappear...
...American Airways. Although the Germans got there first, Pan Am has built up 40,000 miles of route, much of it paralleling the German lines. Now, with financial and diplomatic help from Washington, Pan Am is in a fine position to break what is left of the Nazi web. In Washington last week it was reported that Pan Am soon would get an $8,000,000 subsidy, use it to increase its South American schedules 50% beginning in July...
...people of the Pacific Northwest, public power is nothing new. Seattle has had a municipal utility since 1905, and some other towns in Washington and Ore gon have had them even longer. But behind these scattered outposts lies a web of big private systems, covering a far wider area than the famed British grid. Eleven of them have combined assets of well over $400,000,000. But compared with Grand Coulee and Bonneville, the Northwest's private power resources are minuscule. When they reach their combined ultimate capacity of 2,438,400 kilowatts, the Bonneville Power Administration (which administers...
...snowshoeing was one of the most popular winter sports in the U. S. Colleges in the snow belt staged intercollegiate snowshoe meets. The Appalachian Club promoted mountain-climbing on snowshoes. Cross-country races, hundred-yard dashes and hurdle races were the nucleus of every winter carnival, and many a web-footed sportsman went home with a severe case of mal de raquette (lame ankles...
...proudly announced that some 30 stations below the Rio Grande were preparing to rebroadcast its Latin-American short-wave shows. Last week CBS countered that move. Back from a seven-week tour of Latin America came CBS President William S. Paley with the news that CBS was extending its web to include stations in most Latin-American countries...