Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 2,200 of Nijverdal's 9,000 people are working in the town's cotton industry-the Koninklijke Stoomwevery te Nijverdal-consisting of spinneries, a weaving mill, and dyeing and bleaching plants. The warehouse flew the American flag, as did most of Nijverdal that day. Managing Director Godfried van der Meulen pointed to a pile of cotton bales -most of them from New Orleans and Galveston. There were 350 of them, each with the red, white & blue shield of the U.S. and the inscription: "For European Recovery." "This isn't much," Van der Meulen said...
...December 1936, the Nationalist garrison at Sian, facing Communist guerrilla forces, laid down their arms and refused to fight "fellow Chinese" any longer. Like their commander, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang ("The Young Marshal"), most of them were from Manchuria, and they wanted to fight the Japanese, if anybody. Chiang flew immediately to Sian to investigate...
...Japanese captured Nanking, Chiang moved the government upriver to Hankow and fought on; they captured Hankow, he moved to Chungking. When the ports were gone, Chinese coolies carved a Burma Road across the mountains. When the Japanese cut off Burma, after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. flew amounting load of war supplies "over the Hump...
Butler accused the canon of encouraging in him the despicable traits of unquestioning faith and conventional obedience, while damping down every speculative impulse. Once independent of the old man, Butler flew to the opposite extreme, making speculation his whole career...
...Manhattan's Daily News got a case of the dry grins over two eels which had stoppered Bronx water pipes and an owl which flew into the 67th floor of the RCA building. "If the whole metropolitan animal kingdom-cats, dogs, horses, pigeons, even cockroaches-has decided to gang up on us city dwellers," said the News, "they could probably drive us all nuts in no time...