Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprising amounts of ammunition. From Sweden they got guns, not too many but very good ones, especially the first class Bofors anti-aircrafts. Their little fleet could do with support from Sweden's crack one, being mostly submarines, gunboats, motor torpedo boats, but Russia's clumsy battleships draw too much water to go close to shore. Chief disadvantage of the Finns is in the air, whence plenty of hell will rain on them before they win or lose. One young Finnish fighter pilot was credited in the first two days with shooting down single handed six Red bombers...
Advocates of world union must thank Lord Halifax for clarifying an important issue. They now know what they have to fight. No one of them, surely, ever expected to draw up a simple "paper plan" and put it into practice as easily as you would change your summer oil. Fundamental social and economic changes are obviously necessary before the world's way of life can be brought to the perfection they seek. It is clear that Lord Halifax, while he may approve world union in principle, will oppose these very changes with all his power. Everything he and his party...
Japan's troops, who were able as usual to make an unresisted landing, pushed inland rapidly, advancing 30 miles in three days. The Chinese said they were dropping back to draw their enemy across the coastal plain into hills where they could be disastrously stopped. But this tactic would not prevent the Japanese from establishing air bases on the plain, from which they could easily and systematically bomb the two supply routes...
...Walter D. Lamar, retiring president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, last week retorted: "That insult to the best part of America shows both ignorance and stupidity. . . ." Hastily Mr. Churchill's secretaries rushed off answers to letter-writing Southerners, assured them that Mr. Churchill had meant to draw no "analogy...
...Huge electromagnets to draw submarines to the side of a battleship, where the submarine's crew would be electrocuted by an electric current sent through the hull...