Word: backings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief objection to these colonial developments came, unexpectedly, from back-bench (unimportant) Laborites...
...Officers from H. M. S. Rodney: leave cancelled. Report back aboard ship at once...
...Back to his capital at Nanking went satisfied President Chiang; up to his fortress at Mukden, Manchuria, 400 miles from Harbin went the "Tiger's Cub," young Chang, after helping to break the railroad treaty concluded by his father, the late, mighty Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928). Both went to marshal armies against further trouble for both knew that seizure of the C. E. R. was open signal to a battle by which they hoped to crush the Russian domination of China's wealthiest region...
...when he forms a west coast line, it will probably join at once with the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line which Ralph A. O'Neill is shoving through along the east coast. The same U. S. money is back of both...
...mile Panama-Santiago route, the U. S. pays Pan-American Airways practically $2 per mile; not enough to cover flying operations, but enough for a sound operating back...