Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the busy bombers, dropping pyrotechnic flares to light their work at night, had wrecked the Sun Yat-sen University, the British-owned Saichuen power station, cutting off all air-raid alarms, and the huge Fung Keng rubber plant. Scores of bombs, aimed at the Pearl River bridge, connecting the city with the industrial island suburb of Honam, fell along the waterfront, smashing sampans into wet and bloody splinters. Incendiary bombs plumped in Standard Oil storage tanks near the main Wongsha rail station, sent a 16-car train and the station roaring up in flames. The mammoth...
...spoon out to the Government's air rearmament critics this week, the Air Secretary received assurance last week from Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield-who ended his two-year nonparticipation in air rearmament when Lord Swinton was dropped as Air Secretary month ago-that he will erect a huge airframe plant on the outskirts of Birmingham, designed for mass production of 5,000 planes a year. The factory, expected to be in operation in six months, will turn out Britain's newly developed "interceptor fighters," which will be fitted with Rolls-Royce motors. Running at its capacity...
...Bible Bill's" answer to this legal defeat was his spirited invasion of Saskatchewan. Moving East, with his slick radio voice, his politico-religious antics, his lessons on finance & economy, "Bible Bill" drew such huge crowds wherever he moved that he gave faraway orthodox Ottawa the scare of its life. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Government moved their big guns to Regina, Saskatoon, many a smaller community. A Cabinet official chose a favorable moment in tiny Esterhazy to announce that during the present session of Parliament a $50,000,000 Dominion housing scheme would...
Corn. After last year's huge corn harvest (2,644,995,000 bu.), mid-western farmers were asked to plant 18% fewer acres. Many ignored the request. It is estimated that by fall, last year's surplus will total 300,000,000 bu., 30% above normal. This fact plus prospects of an average 1938 crop last week dropped futures prices on the Chicago Exchange to 57? a bu., 60? below last year, and prompted Administrator Howard Ross Tolley to predict that a Federal corn loan will be necessary this fall...
...waning interest in commercial loans. In New York City, an apparent reversal of the trend-an almost unparalleled rise of $465,000,000 in bank credit- was actually a confirmation of the condition. The temporary fluctuation was caused by banks (having more & more difficulty in finding investments) buying up huge quantities of maturing Treasury obligations so as to be able to turn them in for new bonds and notes being offered this week...