Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight Course Negotiations, As a matter of routine the French Chamber voted earlier last week to spend an additional $96,000,000 on frontier fortifications. But to relinquish $97,000,000 as President Hoover asked, to make this sacrifice for the benefit of Germany which has twice invaded and ravaged French territory and will perhaps do so again?that was asking of the French Chamber too much...
...made general agent for Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Ry. Ten years later he started his utility career by building the Fort Worth-Dallas interurban line, first in Texas. He has an interest in many utility companies now and one of his most important positions is the presidency of Frontier Corp., the dupont-Aluminum Co. power project in the St. Lawrence...
...good fun in a comedy which is partly a satire on westerns, partly a melodrama in its own right. The idea is one of those really comic inspirations whose single disadvantage is that they can never be made quite as funny as their intention. Bored guests, feeling that frontier atmosphere has become effete, are about to leave the dude ranch when the proprietor hires a troupe of vagrant actors to provide glimpses of primitive life. They stage a melodrama in the lobby in which the business of "unhand that woman" and "the viper beats my mother" is used with proper...
...Russia out now, Statesman Mo was believed to have offered $40,000,000. To help Statesman Mo raise his offer to $80,000,000, the Soviet Government has lately massed troops again on the Chinese frontier...
Pride & Piety. Siamese are famed as a gentle people, prone to smile and take life easily; but they are intensely proud of independence won by ceaseless vigilance (both Britain and France have seized Siamese territory by a process called "rectifying the frontier...