Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britons on the North Sea coast remember that only 20 years ago they were tumbling from their beds to dash for crude shelters as warning sirens screamed and the dull throb of German Zeppelin motors advanced through the grey-black fog. Determined to be better prepared to protect the civilian population in the event of another war, the House of Commons last week took up for its third and final reading the Air-Raid Precautions Bill...
...route from Kobe to Manila, steaming down the rock-strewn coast of Formosa to avoid the Japanese-controlled war zone in Taiwan Strait, the Dollar Line's 21,936-ton President Hoover grounded last week a few hundred yards off Japan's Hoishoto Island 500 miles north of Manila. There, with 1,000 passengers and crew safely ashore and on other ships, the $8,000,000 liner was slowly being battered to pieces...
...union, filed suit against 5,000 Jane & John Does, Longshoreman Bridges and other union officials, Cinemactors Fredric March, Franchot Tone, Mary Astor, James Cagney, Lionel Stander, Jean Muir, and Director William Dieterle. Charge: Led by Cinemactor March, the group had conspired to propagate Communism on the Pacific Coast, causing Mr. Cox to lose his job. Damages asked: $5,100,000. Mr. Cox announced that if he won his case he would donate $5,000,000 to the rescued State of California, retain the rest as personal balm...
...Another famed California case decided last week was the dispute over reorganizing Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., largest on the West Coast, which became technically if not commercially insolvent last year when reserve requirements were upped $23,000,000 (TIME. Aug. 24). Last week the California Supreme Court upheld the reorganization plan of California Insurance Commissioner Samuel Carpenter...
Japan will be further strained in proportion as she is obliged to combat the nationalist government by conquering more and more territory. Will control of the coast be enough? Can she stop half-way in the conquest of China? The tendency will be sooner or later...