Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race will be run over the flat course, which extends four and a half miles from Soldiers Field along the Charles river to the Arsenal Street bridge and then across the river and down the other side to a finish just above the Larz Anderson Bridge...
...General Nobuyoshi Muto arrived in Mukden last week to take over his duties as Japanese Commander-in-Chief and special ambassador to Manchoukuo, Chinese guerrillas staged a desperate anti-Japanese raid. Machine guns and tanks banged away all night. The raiders succeeded in setting fire to the great Mukden arsenal three times and destroyed several planes at the airport. With the dawn they vanished. Japanese bombers zoomed off in pursuit...
...shrewdest, wiliest politicians in the East. Secretly opposed to Japan, he hypnotized Japanese officials for years into keeping him in power in Manchuria. With other walrus-mustachioed brigands of the Manchurian steppes as his generals he built up a powerful army, built a tremendous arsenal at Mukden, extended his sway to Peiping (then Peking, the capital). To Japan, Manchuria represents her greatest source of raw materials and an outlet for her swarming population. "When we got Korea," admitted a frank Japanese official recently, "we found it was already full of Koreans." Crafty Chang Tso-lin accepted enormous "loans" from Japan...
...Ignored the protest of Labonte Dr. C K. Cullen that "640 tons of munitions produced by a British Government arsenal are at this moment being loaded aboard a ship in London harbor destined for Japan...
Died. Henry Martyn Leland. 89, "Grand Old Man of the automobile industry"; after a month's illness; in Detroit. A tool maker in the U. S. Springfield Arsenal (rifles) during the Civil War, he invented the barber's clippers while later employed by Brown & Sharp, machinery manufacturers. After building naphtha launch engines, Motormaker Leland turned to automobiles, produced the first Cadillac in 1904, later sold out to General Motors Corp. In 1917 he organized Lincoln Motor Co. to produce Liberty Motors for the Federal Government. Converted to automobile production after the War, the Lincoln company failed...