Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thirteen (Mosfilm) relates a day's experience of ten Soviet soldiers, their commander, his wife and an old geologist on their homeward journey across the Siberian Desert. Coming by chance upon a spring frequented by a band of marauding Baschmachi tribesmen, the commander (Ivan Novoseltsev) decides to trap the bandits when they shortly arrive for water. One by one the defenders drop before overwhelming hordes until by the time help comes only Private Akchurin (Ilya Kuznetsov) remains...
...might of French arms finally calmed the Tuaregs. They laid down their weapons, agreed to settle in small oases on the fringe of the desert, raise sheep and goats...
Three weeks ago M-Day's three wings concentrated in California. There, divided into two warlike combat groups, it played a new kind of war game. Day & night it attacked and defended an imaginary Los Angeles that had been drawn to scale on the desert sands of Muroc Dry Salt Lake (TIME, May 24). Last week when the battle of Los Angeles ended, M-Day's commander, Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews, sat down with his staff to write a confidential report to the War Department of the conclusions his new game had produced. But before...
...General Headquarters Air Force-430 officers, 2,500 men, 244 planes, divided into attacking and defending armadas, had begun to bomb the horned toads and rattlesnakes off the desert bed of Muroc Dry Salt Lake in inland California...
Refining the devastating White Spanish technique at the blasting of the Basque "Holy City" of Guernica (TIME, May 10), Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews commanding the Muroc air war, had spotted an outline of Greater Los Angeles on the desert with circles and triangles representing such legitimate combatant bomb targets as munitions plants, railheads, bridges. First blood last week went to Brigadier General Gerald C. Brant's attacking force which theoretically blasted the Douglas Aircraft factory at Culver City to bits...