Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passes of Yemen Arabia, converging on Sana, the walled white mountain capital of Yemen One moved eastward, from the Red Sea port of Hodeida that Ibn Saud's men captured last fortnight. One moved westward from the great central desert toward Sana. The third drove down from the border bandit land of Nejram on Sada key city to Sana. They came in armored cars, in camel corps and on horseback. And behind them able Ibn Saud solidified their gains by cutting the customs duties at Hodeida 50% last week. . Hard-pressed indeed was their prey, Yahya ibn Hamid...
Stations across the county border did a boomtime business. The city hastily set up four emergency stations for doctors, nurses, food delivery. When the labor policy board of the Petroleum Administration failed to get the companies to agree to its proposals, Secretary Ickes stepped in with a six-point program providing for arbitration. This time the companies accepted but the unions postponed decision, awaiting clarification of the Ickes proposals on wages and union recognition. At the week's end the four city-operated stations were Cleveland's only source of supply...
...Nazi Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels, charged with the job of getting the Saar back for Germany at any cost, began scouring Germany for oldtime Saar residents eligible to vote in next year's free-for-all. Then he rushed to Zweibriücken on the Saar border to scream at a huge crowd of 200,000: "Your return to the Reich is no longer a question of parliamentary or party support but of the will of 66,000,000 people, finally united and standing beside and behind you. No measures of force or despotism can separate...
...Imam kidnapped his sheiks' children and held them as hostages. The latest dispute over the unmapped boundary between Yemen and Asir has been going on for two years, complicated by the fact that last year the Idrissi of Asir, repenting his surrender to Ibn Saud, fled over the border to join Yahya the Imam...
...plant at Mason, 22 miles away. Thus with pomp & ceremony last week was inaugurated by far the most powerful transmitting station on earth. Until last week Warsaw led the world with a 158,000-watt station. John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley's troublesome XER, across the Mexican border, acclaimed itself largest in North America with 75,000 watts. WLW's new 500,000-watt equipment makes it ten times stronger than any of its 20 biggest rivals in the U. S. Most spectacular item is its antenna-a steel frame 831 ft. tall, 35 ft. thick...