Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since that time the land named for Simon Bolivar has adopted a Drang nach Osten (Drive toward the East) policy of her own, with only tough little Paraguay to oppose her in obtaining a water route to the Atlantic. Now Bolivia will have a small corridor between the Brazilian border and the new Paraguayan border (see map) to the Paraguay River, where she can build a port of her own. By filling in swampland, roads and railroads can be built from the Andean plateau to that port. From there Bolivian products can be transported down the broad Paraguay River into...
...China watched breathlessly to see whether the Cantonese military leaders would resist Japan or waver in the allegiance which nearly all Chinese have shown to Chiang Kaishek, "The Great Unifier." His entourage last week put the blame on Neville Chamberlain, attributed the Japanese drive on Canton to collapse of British prestige at Munich and predicted that not only will the Cantonese fight but their resistance will so overextend Japan that it will cost...
Meanwhile the two main prongs of Japan's drive in Central China on Hankow closed pincers-like. At Sinyang the Japanese blasted their way into the walled city and cut the only railway over which Russian supplies could reach Hankow. On the Yangtze River Japanese naval vessels poured shells on the fortified heights of Maoshan and Shihhweiyao, on opposite banks of the river and only 60 miles in a beeline from Hankow...
...Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden (Wed. 9 p. m. CBS). Thornton Wilder's fantasy about a family who go for a drive in a car which never moves; produced by the Columbia Workshop...
...less an authority than that of Yale ("Drink Her Down") University, it was argued last week that a highball, a Martini or three glasses of beer could be consumed on an empty stomach without impairing its owner's ability to drive a car. Double the amounts could be taken after eating...