Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt had labor trouble on his hands. It came to him in the form of a delegation of hosiery workers bearing a somewhat questionable piece of persuasion, an unexploded gas bomb used in a recent Reading, Pa. strike...
...Cuse's obscure but active Vimalert Co. Ltd. has been reconditioning and selling planes and parts here & there-including, through Amtorg, the U. S. S. R.-for the past 15 years. Mr. Cuse is listed with the State Department as a salesman of everything lethal from a bomb to a battleship. When Chief Green tried to put State Department pressure on Mr. Cuse, the latter would not stay pressured. He demanded a license to sell $2,777,000 worth of aviation equipment to the Spanish Reds and, amid a great sweep of national headlines and much furore in official...
...Diego. Calif, doorstep a vigilant bodyguard spied a beer bottle filled with black powder, instantly snatched out the bomb's fuse in time to save the house of General Plutarco Elias Calles, exiled onetime Mexican President, who was playing cards inside...
...hundred troops of Kidnapper Chang and around them were a few thousand troops of General Yang, who might be considered as having highjacked the kidnapping. At much greater distance were thousands of troops of Kidnapper Chang's main army and also Nanking Government armies rushing toward Sian, while Nanking bomb ing planes of U. S. pattern wheeled ominously...
...Bomb Tokyo? Lead China? Tokyo's queasiest fear this week was lest Mr. T. V. Soong should judge Japan to be in such an economic and political spot that now is actually the best time for China to go to war. Japanese respect the judgment of Mr. Soong and if he was for war then they could be sure they were hearing thunder on the Left, sure that Stalin was going to back China, panic-stricken lest at any hour Soviet air squadrons from Vladivostok appear and bomb Tokyo with no preliminary declaration of war. Japan played just that...