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...Between 1850 and 1860 it hopped 80.6 miles from western Virginia to Ohio and by 1890 it had jumped clear into Indiana, where it stayed for six decades. This year, when the mathematicians finished calculations on the 1950 census, it was obvious that the center had made the biggest westward hop since 1890, and, because of the industrial rush to Texas, the greatest southerly move on record. The census bureau announced that the new center reposed at latitude 38 degrees, 50 minutes and 21 seconds and longitude 88 degrees, 9 minutes and 33 seconds...
Eight Goths and 22 Norwegians on exploration journey from Vinland westward. We had camped by two islands one day's journey north from this stone. We were and fish[ed] one day. After we came home [we] found ten [of our] men red with blood and dead. A.V.M. [Ave Virgo Maria] save [us] from evil. [We] have 10 men [of our party] by the sea to look after our ship[s] 14 days' journey from this island. Year...
...cars and trucks heading west may leave the Jersey Turnpike, cross the Delaware north of Philadelphia to reach the eleven-year-old Pennsylvania Turnpike. Once across Pennsylvania, they may be able to cut westward to Chicago without intersection or stop sign along new expressways planned for northern Ohio and Indiana. At its northern end, the Jersey Turnpike will link with the highspeed New York State Thruway, already under construction between Manhattan, Buffalo and the Pennsylvania border. With another twist of a cloverleaf, it can join New York's present parkway system into New England, zip up Connecticut...
...Rivals General de Lattre de Tassigny as one of France's best military minds. Rejects the rigid-defense, Maginot Line philosophy of fighting. "Don't sit in your trenches and wait," he says. "Punch them in the puss as soon as they show any signs of moving westward." He believes that NATO's forces, when motorized and brought up to planned strength, could quickly seize the initiative in case of attack and punch their way eastward despite enemy masses...
...they marched away in good order, leaving smoldering ruins and 24 bodies. The surviving people of San Pedro stayed long enough to bury their own dead, to disinter the bandit's body and throw it to the buzzards. Then, the civil war's newest refugees,they straggled westward to seek shelter in neighboring towns...