Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army," was reported to be making a wide, westward detour around the battle area, intending to capture Hankow, on the River Yangtze, "The Chicago of China," so called because it is the chief commercial city of Central China. If he does capture Hankow, Feng can descend the river and approach Nanking's rear in crushing force...
...only $17,000 worth of imports. "Did she think we were that dumb?" asked inspectors who had pounced on her ostentatious quantities of luggage, appraised its contents of contraband at about $100,000. If some European tipster, scenting the obvious, warned U. S. authorities of Mrs. Dodge's approach, he was entitled to the usual 25% reward - an easy...
...dropped precipitately (only to whip upward with the new week-8,279,000 shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, 2,545,400 on the curb). Second, that in Washington the U. S. Chamber of Commerce was finishing its 18th annual convention (TIME, May 5). As the nearest approach to an organized stabilizer of U. S. Business, the Chamber reported its observations (including President Butterworth's description of the recent business cycle as "wayward and fickle") and wrangled over remedies (see p. 15). President Hoover, addressing the Chamber, promised to extend its unofficial efforts by ap pointing another...
JOURNEY'S END-English officers approach Death (TIME, April...
...transport between neighboring major cities will approach "streetcar frequency...