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...famed Italian debacle in 1896. The South African detachment which had taken Italian Somaliland, had swept up across the Ethiopian savannas and had cracked Harar, now drove up the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad at the rate of 25 miles a day. There was a brief, sharp action at the Awash River. Then the British pressed on and took Addis Ababa without meeting any Italian resistance...
...these two key towns taken, the remnants of Benito Mussolini's Imperial Forces were completely hemmed in. Cut off from supply by sea, and also from escape by sea, they were in a virtually hopeless position. The British anticipated that they would make their next stand at the Awash River, 100 miles east of Addis Ababa...
...tuned as carefully as he could. Next he caught the ship's call signal: GFSB. This was the Empress of Australia, a pretty big prize. The uncertain staccato chatter continued: Torpedoed. . . . Now down by bow. All lifeboats over to port. . . . Deck awash. At 10:53 p.m.: Being shelled again. Lat. 15:30 N. Long...
...bales more than last year's surplus and a new all-time record. As usual, the lion's share of the surplus belonged to the U. S., No. 1 would-be exporter. In U. S. warehouses now are nearly 11,000,000 bales without a market. Awash with surpluses, the U. S. price of March cotton sank 60? (to $51.80 a bale) last week...
Everybody was just getting happily awash when the Beverly Hills police arrived to break up the crap game. The more prudish producers went home. By 2 o'clock only the drunks and the pretty girls were left. At 4 the fights began. By 6 the flunkeys were mopping up and sweeping together the fragments. Next day people counted their hangovers, declared it was one of the best Hollywood parties ever. There was some question whether the party made any money. After the 1938 party charity was reported to be only...