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Source of the smoke are 100 forest fires burning in the general district of the Alaska highway in Northern British Columbia and Alberta. The pall, covering all New England, extends westward to Iowa and southward to the Carolinas...
...turned their heads. The main battleground, he argued, is not in Asia, where the shooting is, but in Europe, where the balance of world power is. And in its present state of unreadiness, Western Europe could be overrun any time Russia decided to march her gigantic land army westward...
...bomber that waddled out onto the runway one day last week, the flight would take some 30 hours and its course would take it over 7,000 miles. Shortly after noon, the long, blimp-nosed craft, her six propellers glinting in the sun, climbed out westward from her Texas base, on past the sandy fringes of California, high over the glazed emptiness of the Pacific; then her navigator pointed her northward to the tip of the Aleutians. She did not have an atom bomb aboard, but she had its equivalent weight...
...October, 16 more U.S. cities will be added to the 33 already linked by television's coaxial cable and microwave relay network. The swing to the south will tie in Louisville, Huntington, W. Va., Nashville, Greensboro and Charlotte, N.C., Jacksonville, Atlanta and Birmingham. Moving westward, the net will pick up Indianapolis, Rock Island, Ill., Davenport and Ames, Iowa, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City. California's TV stations can join the national net late in 1951, when the final link between Omaha and San Francisco is completed...
...years, the U.S. had gained nearly 19 million people-the biggest increase in its history, and greater than the combined populations of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The population of the U.S., according to the tentative census figures released last week, now stands at 150,520,198. The massive westward shift of the U.S. people would perceptibly change the traditional political balance...