Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adachi" came to him one day to confide secretly that he would not actually stand against Britain and was only sitting in with the French, Belgians and Italians "as an observer." This blazing indiscretion amounted to revealing that Japan?the little naval ally of Britain?had been ready all along to double-cross the Continental Powers, several of whose offers to Snowden were countersigned by Dr. Adachi...
...father than Il Duce. It only seems as though placid, soft-eyed Donna Rachele Mussolini bore a bouncing bambino every twelvemonth. Last week it was a mere girl-child? scarcely a major victory in the "Battle of the Babes"* which Dictator Mussolini keeps urging all Italian males to fight along with the "Battle of the Grain" (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927, et seq.). When cables flashed news of this latest (fifth) Mussolini offspring, to be called "Anna Maria," observers plotted a battle chart of ages, intervals...
...both governments grew thoroughly irritated, the Chinese and Soviet official press services started up a game they have not played for a fortnight ? the dangerous sport of announcing that while "our troops" were trying to maintain an inoffensive guard along the China-Russian frontier, "their troops" were raiding across the border, thus obliging "our troops" to engage the rascals and drive them back where they belonged...
...large part of the abandoned car problem." Thus, last month, wrote George U. Harvey, aggressive president of Queens Borough (New York City), to Henry Ford. Last week he got his answer: a Fordman would call on Mr. Harvey, confer with him on what to do with old cars abandoned along Queens highways. A solution, adopted in Detroit, was suggested: haul the cars to jails and let prisoners break them up. ¶ The Ford plants turned out in August 205,634 Model A cars and trucks, a record for August. In only one other month, October 1925, has Ford production passed...
...instituted research on airport gas, oil and parts service stations. Standard Oil Companies of New Jersey, Indiana and California have organized a Stanavo agency to sell aviation gas and oil at ports. Richfield Oil Co. has built 16 of 35 proposed port stations. Texas Co. is stringing its depots along air routes...