Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese who know their history when, advancing from Manchukuo, they set out in July to take possession of the northern part of Hopei Province. Their plans for an inexpensive pay-as-you-go conquest was rudely upset by the explosion at Shanghai when the Chinese attempted to bomb the Japanese admiral's flagship and attacked the Japanese forces in the International Settlement (TIME...
...corner of the famous Bund which skirts the Whangpoo, and Nanking Road, heart of the section where Americans congregate, the sky fell fortnight ago when a Chinese air bomb intended for the Idumo fell, plunk!, into the Palace Hotel (No. 10 on the map). Another, a mile away, snuffed out 500 lives when it plunked into the Great World Amusement Palace, crammed with gibbering Chinese...
...that instant there came the mounting whistling scream of a falling bomb and a blast of sound that smashed every window and almost every glass in the Cathay bar. Instantly another followed, landed full on the Palace hotel across the street. In the lobby of the Palace stood United Pressman John R. Morris. He wrote...
Over a mile away other bombs whistled down on the corner of the Avenue Edward VII and Thibet Road in the French Concession where stands an amusement park, the "Great World." This, last week, was jampacked with Chinese refugees. A bomb landed smack in the middle of them, killed 450, wounded 800. Passing in the street were Dr. Frank J. Rawlinson, veteran U. S. Missionary, and Motorcar Salesman H. S. Honigsberg and his Russian wife. All three were killed. Dr. Robert Karl Reischauer, Princeton University lecturer, acting as a tourist guide for the summer, had his leg torn...
...Nobody deplores more than we the terribly tragic accidental bombing by two damaged Northrop planes. ... It is officially confirmed that both pilots were wounded and that [antiaircraft shots] damaged the bomb racks, which caused the bombs to break loose. Both wounded pilots are in Shanghai hospitals. It is incredible that the belief exists in some places that China deliberately bombed the International Settlement. What...