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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week warships of Britain and France, steaming up and down the Basque coast, had some humanitarian success scaring off Spanish Rightist warships from molesting the craft upon which Spanish Leftists were escaping as best they might. But those fleeing from, captured Bilbao along the coast road toward Santander were treated every few hours to bombardment of the road by such Rightist warships as the Almirante Cervera and Velasco (see map). Torrential rains made the road a sloshy ribbon of mud upon which people screamed, died and were blown to bits as shells came hurtling in from...
...efforts this week to cut the Madrid-Valencia highway, Rightist Italian tanks grappled with Leftist Russian tanks along a 15-mile front in what Madrid radio called "the biggest tank battle since the World War." Madrid complained that the Rightist air force has been "doubled" by recent arrivals of Germans and Italians, declared that 15,000 more Italian soldiers had just been landed officered by members of the Italian General Staff. Meanwhile seven German warships left their anchorages in Portuguese waters (see map, p. 15), steaming past Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, where they were joined by the Admiral Graf Spee...
...whose dream came true was 72-year-old Dr. John Lorenzo Dow Roberts, who settled in Monterey 40 years ago. Many of his patients lived along the rugged coastal mountains reached only by difficult trails. Riding through this virgin terrain. Dr. Roberts grew to love its scrawny cypress, bosky gorges,, tall redwoods, dreamed of a scenic highway. Last week after 20 years of battling legislative opponents and tough engineering problems, Dr. Roberts finally saw his highway opened, a 139-mi. oiled string twined around the long fingers of the coastal mountains. The road reaches from arty Carmel...
...Peet prescribed the method of administering this: "The subject is seated and an attendant holds the head tilted backward about 45°. This is the usual position for a nasal examination. A speculum is introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce ice. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried...
...pelts or carcasses. . . ." But reassurance came when it appeared that the Commission had no intention of using its destructive powers for several years, until the herds had increased to the point where control measures are necessary. The amendment also tightened the restrictions against killing or capturing the animals anywhere along the coast, whereas formerly only a few districts were protected...