Word: basely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wording was that "places from which the raiders come" can mean a number of places. Well known is the fact that many Rightist bombers have come from Italy, that a large proportion of Rightist aviators are Italians. Also well known is the fact that the principal Italian air base in Spain is on the island of Majorca. Big question of last weekend's war scare was whether Leftist Spain was threatening to bomb Italian cities like Genoa (400 miles from Barcelona) and Rome (550 miles) or simply Italian-controlled cities like Palma, Majorca...
...Japanese, who had been pushing along the railroad toward Chengchow, hoping to make it a base for their southerly drive to Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's provisional capital, the flood was a severe setback. Tokyo papers at once accused the devilish Chinese of having sprung the dikes as a strategic military move. "An atrocity," cried Damei, "by barbarian Chinese. . . . The Japanese are making frantic efforts to check the flow and to rescue the Chinese caught in the flood area, at the same time repulsing Chinese attacks...
Convict Richard Whitney, onetime (1910) member of Harvard's varsity crew, onetime (1930-35) President of the New York Stock Exchange, in a game at Sing Sing, played first base for the prison's "school team," batted .667 in three times at bat, made no errors, stood a chance of promotion to the prison varsity...
...across from its main Manhattan office, National Safety opened a branch devoted solely to CheckMaster accounts. By last week, when Banker Efron and other National Safety executives quietly cut into a cake to celebrate CheckMaster's third anniversary, the idea was an open-and-shut success: the base of deposit banking had been broadened considerably. Sixty-one U. S. banks were using the CheckMaster Plan; 250 more were using similar plans. National Safety had 40,000 active accounts, 35,000 more temporarily inactive, and was collecting $350,000 a year in fees...
Last week, half of Canton's population had fled. The broad avenues were piled high with debris, thousands of hovels were leveled and the city looked like a human slaughterhouse. Japanese bombers, apparently operating from an off-sea base near the Portuguese colony of Macao, for the third successive week streaked bombs down on Canton in almost daily raids. To Canton's symphony of stenches was added another last week-that of dead, decaying flesh, intensified by sweltering heat. Rescue workers, handkerchiefs over their nostrils, scrabbled in the ruins to drag out the injured, could give no account...