Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vengeance. But not everywhere was there unmixed joy. Lines of men and women streamed out of Madrid toward the coast, hoping somehow to escape the clutches of Fascist rule. Thousands of stanch Loyalists who feared for their lives if they remained clamored to board British warships, besieged consulates of neutral powers...
...Continental service will number some 600,000 men. Instead of 19 divisions that will be ready for immediate service in case of a war on the Continent, there will be 32. The anti-aircraft Territorials will be upped to 100,000 men and 10,000 will be on coast defense duty. Together with 150,000 men in the Navy and 118,000 in the Air Force, not to mention the 60,000 British troops in India and Burma, Britain's trained fighting men will be well nigh 1,200,000-quite a respectable figure for a non-conscript country...
...During the 1938-39 winter, not a single airliner crashed because of weather. But other troubles reared their ugly heads. Two of the three crashes of the past five months, it was officially revealed last week, were due to mechanical failure. The third was United's West Coast mishap, due to egregious pilot error (TIME, March...
...crossed the Atlantic presumably in a French airplane which flew from Dakar in West Africa, to Natal in Brazil. They were spotted by Dr. Raymond Corbett Shannon, a member of the Foundation's staff. Within a year they had flown with the prevailing winds 115 miles up the coast...
...Francisco, Australian-born Longshoreman Alfred ("Harry") Renton Bridges, West Coast C. I. O. leader, for the third time filed his intention of becoming a U. S. citizen ("first papers"). Absentminded, he forgot to get his final papers by 1928 and again 1935, or he would be in no danger of deportation...