Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funds. The sentences have been appealed, and a new drive for funds is necessary. Contributions will be gratefully received, and may be addressed to the undersigned. Every dollar sent us will not only help prevent the railroading of the defendants to jail, but will also be a direct blow at Fascism...
Shortly after 4 p. m., the great hay barn of the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. was touched off, authorities believe, by a cigaret butt flicked from careless fingers. The hay acted as a blow torch on the surrounding tinder-like constructions of sprawling Packingtown, the vast stockyards area on Chicago's Southwest Side. Almost daily fires are extinguished in Packingtown. But when the dreaded "all-out" 4-11 signal clanged through the city's firehouses, firemen knew that this was no ordinary stockyards blaze...
...hand was the elaborate report of a special League Commission which, after weeks of slogging through the steamy jungle of the Gran Chaco, had dismally failed to settle the two-year-old war between Paraguay and Bolivia. To the outside world that failure had been just one more body blow to the League's reputation as a peacemaker. Not since it was founded was the League's prestige at a lower ebb. Japan and Germany had thumbed their noses, given notice of withdrawal. The Disarmament Conference was dead before it reassembled. Something had to be done. Captain Eden...
...Germany the greatest steel company is the Vereinigte Stalwerke A. G. and for its head it has Fritz Thyssen, king of the Ruhr. It was Thyssen who was Hitler's angel; who, as one move in a battle to retain control of his industrial affairs (dealt a desperate blow by Germany's banking crisis of 1931) began pouring money into the treasury of the Nazis to assure to himself the help of a friendly government. So far, nothing improper; if Thyassen believed in the Nazi philosophy, or the good it might do him, there was no real reason...
...Bulgaria. With the close of the war, Bulgaria, who had joined the Central Powers, received the terms of her punishment in the Treaty of Neuilly. Since she had lost much in the settlements closing the Balkan Wars, there was not much that could be lost territorially. Possibly the severest blow was the loss of her Aegean coast-line, with economic as well as political consequences. Never a wealthy state at any time, by the war and the peace treaty, Bulgaria was reduced in power, population, area, and resources to a point where she became one of the least important...