Word: aomori
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan had plenty where that came from. But in fact the condition of Japan's masses, particularly the farmers, is disastrous. Cold, wind and rain have more than halved the rice crop. Many peasants cannot pay their crushing taxes. So bitterly has starvation thinned Japanese blood that in Aomori Prefecture 83% of the men called for military service were too weak and tottering to be accepted for the wars...
Bromley's Luck (cont.). In the fourth plane built for the purpose, Lieut. Harold Bromley & Navigator Harold Gatty finally took off last week from Samishiro Beach, Aomori Prefecture, Japan for a nonstop flight to Tacoma, Wash. Twenty-five hours later they were down again at Shiriyazaki, about 40 mi. from the starting point. Reports were meagre, but it was known that the City of Tacoma, an Emsco monoplane, had been in the thick of headwinds, rain and peasoup fog in its course over the Kuriles Islands. One despatch indicated that the plane was forced back by a broken exhaust...