Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next, popping into an airplane, Dictator Mussolini flew to Amseat on the Egyptian frontier. There, where a 200-mi. barbed-wire Egyptian boundary fence begins its southern sweep, he inaugurated the Balbo-built "Greatest Highway in Africa," 1,200 miles of macadamized strategic coastal road, over which Il Duce soon would drive back westward to Tripoli, the colonial capital. Before setting out he first inspected elaborate underground fortifications along the coast and flew from Tobruk to Derna, a name stirring to every historically-minded U. S. Marine...
...Soviet Union?" smiled Mr. Davies. This led, as any question about price always does in Russia, to dispute over the illusive "real value" of the ruble. Since it has never been quoted freely on international exchange or been permitted to move without rigid State restriction across the Soviet frontier, there is no standard for comparing Soviet costs in monetary units with U. S. costs unless the frankly artificial ruble-dollar rate in Moscow be accepted. Last week the disputants never got around to working out the price of Soviet aluminum in dollars & cents, but whatever it costs, the Government...
...city which retains in its architecture much smack of Capitalist pomp. It is also a chief Soviet industrial centre - most unfortunately from a strategic point of view. For that matter the industrial centres of the Ukraine visited by Mr. Davies last week are located much too near the European frontier of Russia for the peace of the Soviet's military minds. Imperial Russia had enormously larger buffer territories, holding Finland, the Baltic States, Poland and great areas now part of the Balkans- but part of Lenin's genius in founding Soviet Russia was in perceiving that unless...
After an Indiana degree Kermit was claimed manager of a packing company in Minnesota, but the restless frontier of Hollywood called him. His brother, Ken Maynard, was making a good living on horseback before the cameras. However, Kermit had to go through the usual training before he could become a western hero. His football and baseball experience were valuable as he doubled for George O'Brien, Warner Baxter and Victor MacLaglen in the films...
...Italy to do the job. These four powers resolved to take over the whole blockade from midnight of March 6. Each ship will fly in addition to its national flag a "neutral blue pennant with a yellow cross." Italy will patrol the eastern coast of Spain from the French frontier down past Barcelona and Valencia to Alicante. From that point Germany will patrol the southeastern coastline to Malaga. British ships will patrol from Malaga through the Strait of Gibraltar to the beginning of the Portuguese coastline. Over the Spanish-Portuguese land frontier 130 "international observers" will keep watch. French...