Word: basely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walled city of Tsinan, capital of Shantung Province, is some 150 miles behind the Japanese front lines in Central China. For three months it has been part of Japan's "conquered territory" and the base of operations for the Japanese thrust at China's "Hindenburg Line" along the Lunghai Railway in southern Shantung. Garrisoned only by a small Japanese force because all available troops have been sent to the front, the Japanese were forced to employ two Chinese battalions, who surrendered when the city was occupied, as Tsinan's military police. Last week hundreds of Chinese soldiers...
Capture of Tsinan would sever the link between Japan's front lines and her supply & troop landing base at Tientsin, 175 miles north. However, military observers thought that continued occupation of Tsinan by the Chinese would be a foolhardy proposition, for Japanese troops could easily land at Tsingtao, Japanese-held port. 200 miles away on the coast and connected with Tsinan by direct rail. However, the very fact that the Chinese forces dared strike in the heart of Japanese territory was evidence of the precarious position Japan's military machine has now reached in central China...
...fairness to the pros, though, it must be said that they were not used to college pitchers. They swung early most of the time and fouled off a number of base knocks. Third baseman Higgins, second sacker Doerr, and hurler Byron T. Humphreys, who pitched the last inning, all gave a good account of themselves. Manager Cronin, although one winced at his shortstopping a couple of times, really hit the ball hard. In all, the Sox garnered nine hits...
Last spring, with rubber bounding over the 25?-per-lb. level for the first time since 1929, the I. R. R. C. met in London, upped the rubber quota for the second half of 1937 to 90% of the base (TIME. March 29, 1937). Almost immediately afterward came the collapse of the British commodity boom, and rubber consumption presently slumped about 25%. In the U. S., world's biggest rubber buyer, rubber consumption dropped as much as 8,000 tons per month and the price to 14? a lb. Last December, therefore, the I. R. R. C. again...
Last week rubber was selling at 10.31? on the New York Commodity Exchange, cheapest price in three years. Yet to appear was any sign of industrial revival sufficient to bounce rubber up again. But the I. R. R. C.'s 1934 agreement on planting bases expires this year. So the I. R. R. C. again met in London last week, this time to establish not only the export quota for the next three months, but a new planting limit. Recognizing the present slump, I. R. R. C. set the quarterly quota at 60%. Optimistic for the long pull, however...