Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rifles, Ammunition, Artillery, Limbers, Shells, etc. Imported direct from Italy. Now on view at the Old Manchu Arsenal, Sanchiatien...
...Butterfly Wu of China's Hollywood. One night, after the Young Marshal had given orders that he was not to be disturbed in Miss Wu's theatre, his frantic Chinese officers discovered that Japanese troops were attempting to seize his capital, that the keys of the Chinese arsenal were, as usual, on the Young Marshal...
However, they have succeeded in collecting an arsenal consisting of a .33 target pistol, three regulation Springfield Army rifles, and a sixty-pound bow with an archer of no mean ability to go with it, and they are confident that "he who laughs last laughs best...
...years ago Britain's puppet, Premier Nessim abolished Puppet King Fuad's tyrannous Constitution of 1930 but he has failed to restore the slightly more liberal Constitution of 1923. There was only a little outward grumbling when Britain poured a vast arsenal of planes and troops into Egypt last month (TIME, Nov. 4). What happened last week was that the Egyptian Nationalists of the overwhelming majority Wafd* Party saw its chance to bargain with the British Empire for greater freedom...
...French Colonial marksmen tried to pick off the snipers. All Colonials used in the streets were white, the Government announced, but Toulon's electric plant and some Municipal buildings were put under guard of coal-black Senegalese. Vice-Admiral Louis Berthelot of the Toulon naval station declared: "The arsenal workmen have sent me a delegation saying that they do not wish to be linked with last night's bloodshed which they ascribe to underworld agitators eager for loot." Meeting in a suburb three miles outside Toulon, the arsenal workers cheered their regular leaders, who urged them to return...