Word: frontierisms
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...mufti. Next day Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff had signed with the Axis in Vienna and Bulgarian roads were jammed with mechanized Nazi columns. Within 48 hours the grey-green uniformed vanguard had rumbled 175 miles to villages in the Struma Valley a few miles from the mountainous Greek frontier which is only 55 miles from Salonika. If in the next few days or weeks this force was met by the British and the Turks-the British would be daring indeed to risk another lonely Narvik-the campaign for control of the Eastern Mediterranean would begin. This struggle would perhaps...
...same time Vichy released reports that another raiding party, continuing on from Murzuch, had moved northward along the Algerian frontier, captured the fort of Gadames. If this were true, it would put them astride a well-built north-south motor road, 300 miles southwest of Tripoli, just across the border from General Weygand's garrison at Fort Saint in the Tunisia-Algeria-Libya corner...
Excellently drawn, in fresh, lively colors, intelligently captioned, True Comics offered: the colorful stories of Winston Churchill, "World Hero No.1";-George Rogers Clark, potent Revolutionary War hero and frontier fighter; David Bushnell, ingenious Yankee inventor of the first submarine in the Revolutionary War; Simon Bolivar, great South American liberator, whose hero was George Washington. Other brightly colored features include a series on the world's warplanes in action, Lowell Thomas' "greatest adventure," the story of the original Greek Marathon run. Confident first edition was 300,000 copies...
Nazism, on the other hand, voices its opinions of world affairs in "Embajada de Alemania"' and Argentine publication which resembles such American newsletters as the 'No-frontier News Service...
...section which President Roosevelt had called "the Nation's No. 1 economic problem," the answer was critical. Southern chambers of commerce have preferred to call their country "the Nation's No. 1 industrial frontier," but behind either phrase were simple facts which everyone knew. The National Emergency Council's famous 1938 report on Southern economic conditions had made them as plain as the side of a barn; while the South had immense natural wealth, its people were the poorest in the Nation; until it had industries of its own, it would remain a backwoods colonial economy...