Word: bases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stephen is quite right. TIME'S advertising copywriter was off base. However, TIME'S Radio section has pointed out several times in recent weeks the technical excellence of British television...
...warships ploughed upriver, finally blasted Chinese defenders from Hukow. Capture of Hukow, lying at the top of China's second largest lake, Lake Poyang, gives the Japanese a jumping-off place for two drives on Hankow. One route leads down the navigable lake to Nanchang, main Chinese air base which was severely bombed last week, then across country to the vital Canton-Hankow rail-line. A more direct route lies straight up the Yangtze, although this means fighting along a stream well blocked with booms and flanked by mountains pitted with Chinese gun emplacements. An indication that the Japanese...
Behind France's action last week lay persistent rumors buzzing in the Far East for the past month that Japan had eyes on the islands, planned to establish there a seaplane base to be used in a campaign against South China. So far no Japanese warships have been seen in the vicinity, but Japanese fishermen and workers have been shipped to the reefs in increasing numbers...
Britain and France, meanwhile, joined in warning Japan to stay off Hainan Island, which Japan might use as a base for an offensive against Canton and South China. Hainan is a Chinese island which lies close to the coast of French Indo-China and uncomfortably close to Britain's strategic sea route between her colonies of Singapore and Hong Kong...
...dinners, Judge Gary in 1911 substituted the famed "Pittsburgh Plus" system-any steel consumer paid the Pittsburgh base price plus freight from Pittsburgh to his door, even though the steel might come from a mill in an entirely different location. From the steel-man's point of view, this was ideal, for it put all steel mills, no matter what their location, on an equal competitive footing all over the U. S. But consumers soon howled. A Chicago buyer in 1920 paid the $40 a ton Pittsburgh price plus $7.60 a ton freight from Pittsburgh, then found that...