Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they exchanged fists with French Leftists, shouted: "They didn't need us any more. They can win all by themselves!" Arriving in Barcelona to witness the complete evacuation of the remaining 8,000 International Brigade men was a League of Nations Commission of 19 members, which included Noel Field, U.S. member of the League's Permanent Disarmament Commission...
Peaceful, bomb-fearing Britons have for years been notably anxious to have Europe's air fleets limited by some kind of pact. Journalistic furor in London was therefore immense last week when unconfirmed rumors began buzzing that at Munich three weeks ago fat Field Marshal Hermann Göring genially told lean Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that an air pact not only is a good idea but ought to be signed on the basis that Germany can have three planes for every British...
...quantitative estimate must be corrected not so much for qualitative factors-although these are important-as in the light of how rapidly each great power is increasing its yearly or monthly production of reasonably effective fighting aircraft. In acceleration of aircraft production Germany has pioneered, led the whole European field and may still be leading, despite frantic efforts to accelerate production by the other great powers, notably Britain. Göring has been to the European war plane what Ford was to the car, and Lord Nuffield is only now entering the air race as Britain's Big Builder...
...Hitler "can" was completely unofficial. Officially the Führer sent Dr. Chvalkovsky and Dr. Daranyi back by air to Prague and Budapest with the advice that their Governments must settle the matter by negotiation. Meanwhile, 500,000 Czechoslovak soldiers faced 500,000 Hungarians, and in one potato field the trenches were less than 85 yards apart...
...flung 41-year-old elevated railway system, 14 lines that creep and clang counterclockwise around the "Loop" encircling the 7 by 6-block financial and mercantile district before heading back toward the city's outskirts. Inside the "Loop," the property values are as high as the 45-story Field Building; outside they fall off just as steeply...