Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rapid succession. A five-billion franc defense loan, arranged by Finance Minister Paul Marchandeau, was oversubscribed a few hours after the lists opened to the public. An Air Ministry announcement revealed that France will begin her two-year plan of air force rearmament with the purchase of 100 fast Curtiss pursuit planes, ordered in the U. S. last week. And the general staff last week ordered the recruiting of an additional 60,000 native troops in Tunisia, thus bringing France's North African army to a total of 180,000: 1 20,000 natives, and 60,000 Frenchmen...
What all this added up to, in the opinion of some observers, was that once again the balance of air power, of first importance in the Spanish Civil War, had shifted. For the past fortnight reports have indicated that fast new Russian planes have reached the Barcelona Government in large quantities...
...shortest games of recent history here the Varsity nine downed Rhode Island State 4-1 yesterday. Blazing the minutes away for an hour and three quarters, Tom Healey, set the visitors back on their heels with a fast one and superb control, while George Hines after a shaky start bent a rich assortment of curves over and under the home team bats...
...Healey will probably start for the Crimson on the mound, with a possibility of Eddie Ingalls getting the starting call. Coach Fred Mitchell must save one of his hurlers for the Holy Cross encounter Saturday. Because the Holy Cross nine is death on fast pitching, the Varsity mentor may use Ingalls today and Artie Johns on Saturday...
...Tientsin-Pukow and the Lunghai Railways in Central China. In that vicinity the Japanese Army, doubled to a strength of 200,000 men in the last two weeks, was getting perilously near to the vital railway, had almost encircled Suchow. While Chinese defenses North of the railway held fast, even Chinese communiqués admitted Japanese advances by mobile columns from the South. At week's end the Japanese claimed that one column had cut the railroad at Tangshan, 50 miles west of Suchow. There the Japanese Southern Army hoped to meet the Japanese Northern Army and close...