Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolutionary committee (headed for the time being by Professor Pitkin) was urged by the professor to "use the nonpolitical organizations you already have, such as Rotary, Kiwanis, teachers' federations, labor organizations and all the rest; have a clearing house and through it make an analysis of the problems, air them and apply corrective measures. If you want to turn on the heat, turn on the light first...
...Gdynia, only 13 miles from Danzig, President Ignacy Moscicki delivered a nine-minute patriotic speech which thrilled his country. "The Baltic seacoast, Pomorze [the Polish Corridor] and our two ports, Gdynia and Danzig, are the air and sun of our national life and the basis of our political and economic independence," said the 72-year-old former professor of electrochemistry who has been Poland's President for the last 13 years. "Through this narrow gate, through a small strip of seacoast, is done three-quarters of our business with foreign nations. This is our free unhindered...
Filtering into the Free City by air (Danzig is two hours by commercial plane from Berlin), sea and land were German "tourists," all men between 25 and 40. By week's end the Poles estimated there were 7,000 of them. They were housed in the barracks at Langfuhr, northwest of the city, and soon were observed installing machine guns and building fortifications on the Bischofsberg, the hill to the city's southwest. Moreover, Danzig itself started a local Nazi Heimwehr of some 10,000 men. Authentic reports had it that boatloads of artillery and anti-aircraft...
...Every train that a tourist is likely to use is now air-conditioned. . . . Many of the leading hotels in the chief cities are also air-conditioned. When they are not, a firm request that all the heat be turned off and kept off will usually help...
Such was the probable basis of last week's titanic paper war. At reports of far-flung air battles engaging several hundred planes, the skeptical New York Herald Tribune cocked an editorial eyebrow, suggested that the Japanese had drunk too much native sorghum whisky and mistook Lake Bor bustards for Soviet bombers. The only alternative conclusions were: "Either the units of the Japanese Kwantung Army . . . have developed a talent for fiction ... or they are engaged in an undeclared war with the Soviet Union on a scale that deserves a more sophisticated audience than the local nomads and their herds...