Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles south-west of Peking. The Japanese believed that Chinese soldiers stationed nearby had fired the shots and soon the two contingents were flat on their bellies, peppering each other. This was exactly the "incident" the Japanese Army had been waiting for as an excuse to extend its control south and west of the province of Jehol, occupied in 1933, to the remaining North China provinces of Chahay, Hopei, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung. Spurning Chinese offers to investigate the clash, Japanese commanders swung their big guns on Peking itself-and the war in China...
...balancing the credit side of the ledger of cities taken, provinces overrun, is the fact that Japanese control in the conquered territory is limited to rail-lines, roadways. Her battle front, supplied by overstretched, underprotected communi cation lines, is strung out three times as long as the Western Front during the World War. Behind these front lines Chinese guerrillas range with murderous freedom. In Shansi Province, "occupied" by Japanese for four months, 28 divisions of the Chinese Communist 8th Route Army move about organizing the peasants into a Communistic province within a province. At Peking, Chinese soldiers last week attacked...
...home Japan finds the estimated $4,000,000-a-day cost of the war a severe strain on her finances. Main sections of the National Mobilization Act, placing all phases of the national life under government control, have had to be invoked...
Concluded Sheean: "The aristocrats. Jews, liberals and intellectuals, without much direct knowledge of the working class, tend to believe that the Viennese workers are anti-Nazi, but can never produce a shred of objective evidence to that effect. ... It is my impression that the Nazi control over Viennese workers is now already complete, and that any anti-Nazi hope, based on a supposed dissatisfaction of the proletarians, is vain and futile...
...qualifies as No. 1 in the rural press. Last week it seemed that the man would be 57-year-old John Holliday Perry. Already president of A. P. A., which at one time competed with W. N. U. in selling feature boiler plate, Mr. Perry has long sought control of W. N. U. Two years ago, he barely missed it when W. N. U. called off a plan to throw itself into 77-B bankruptcy to scale down interest payments (TIME, April 27, 1936). Last month, he bought enough voting trust certificates and common stock shares to give him controlling...