Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basic set-up of the Navy's Problem XX was for a "White" attacking force under Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus to try from mid-Atlantic to penetrate a "Black" defense under Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews. The attackers might seek to gain a military foothold anywhere in the Americas from Venezuela's eastern boundary to Norfolk, Va. Or they might seek to break through one of the many entrances to the Caribbean and attack the Panama Canal. Belief that the attackers' air forces, at least, had broken through the defense cordon grew when 150 to 175 planes swarmed...
...ballyhoo surrounding this year's Tiger tank edition is mindful of the good burghers of Hanover, but Dick Hough, Ned Parke, and A1 Van de Weghe are certainly food for thought. Call the Orange and Black favorites for Saturday, but make the Crimson dark horses of a very light hue for the meet...
Egypt last week was busily preparing for the visit next month of the 18-year-old Crown Prince of Iran, Shahpur Mohammed Reza, son of strong-willed Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, whose marriage to hazel-eyed, black-haired, 17-year-old Princess Fawziya, eldest sister of boy-King Farouk will take place this spring. At last reports the wedding date had not been...
...soutane. The Cardinals pay him homage. All the baldachins except that of the new Pontiff are folded back to the walls. To show the crowds outside that "a Pope has been made," the ballots, which previously have been burned in the conclave stove with damp straw (to send up black smoke), are this time burned alone, and a thin wisp of white signals from the chapel chimney...
...relax their efforts. Less than a third of the $3,250,000 excise tax, for example, has been passed along by Congress to the State Governments, which have the spending of it.† Other pressing problems: some of the most desirable species of fish (sturgeon, Lake Erie cisco, bloater, black & blue fins) are now extinct in the Great Lakes, and the famed Lake Superior whitefish are fast disappearing; municipalities often have to be forced to stop pollution of streams; the increasing number of hunters (448,000 in 1935, 1,000,000 in 1938) may require tighter limitations on duck hunting...