Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Figures. Meanwhile in London and in Washington the first official figures on recent munitions shipments emerged. Amounts seemed unusually modest. President Walter Runciman of the British Board of Trade announced that between November 1933 and March 1934, Bolivia had bought 101 machine guns, 85 wheels for mountain artillery, various other odds & ends. Paraguay bought 5,000,000 rifle cartridges. Peru, which last week agreed to drop its impending war with Colombia over the Leticia territory (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933-et seq.) had laid in 1,200 three-inch shells, eight rangefinders and a few cases of machine gun cartridges. Further...
...mile front centering on strategic Fort Ballivian, Bolivian headquarters on the Pilcomayo River, every man, every gun and cartridge that either side could mobilize was gathered for one deciding battle. Some 50,000 bloodthirsty Paraguayans were attacking about 60,000 dogged Bolivians. Should Paraguay break through, she will win not only the Fort, but the best motor road in all South America, leading straight into Bolivia's rich Villa Monies oilfields. Paraguayan cavalry columns moved northeast in an effort to outflank the Fort and all night long the sky was yellow with shellfire, while swaying ambulances going back passed...
Colonel Gueorguieff was the new Premier. He named a Cabinet of Zveno men and sympathizers, including a general, a professor and a banker. Like machine-gun fire Dictator Gueorguieff presented decrees and manifestos to the King, got his signatures, shot them at the public. By noon that day the streets were again empty of soldiers. The decrees promised: 1) Fewer ministers and public employes at lower salaries. 2) Stable municipal organizations with mayors appointed by the Government. 3) A balanced budget and creation of new sources of revenue. 4) Easier credit for farmers and artisans. 5) Lower prices...
Merry-Go-Round: The other day General MacArthur proposed to some of his Congressional friends a new law requiring 19-gun salutes for former Chiefs of Staff...
...Judith Wood) is planted as a spy in an apartment adjoining that of his wife's lover (Nils Asther); 2) Kruger steals a pistol from Asther's apartment; 3) he makes the blonde blackmailer write Asther a threatening letter; 4) he kills her with Asther's gun; 5) he plants the blackmail letter in the fireplace as a clue...