Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KARANT Aviation Editor Evanston News-Index Evanston, Ill...
Humbler Moscow folks had a party too last week. The first seven miles of the first subway in Russia opened for business with three days of free rides for the Tovarishchi who helped build it. Driven through quicksand and swampy ground in two years of furious if ill-directed digging, largely by volunteer workmen, there are many things about Moscow's new subway to cause serious engineers to shake their heads, but it easily lives up to its motto: "The most beautiful subway in the world." Built, in the words of Transport Commissar Kaganovich, "to show people what...
...Tsaldaris was plotting to restore Greece's King George II to the throne. An obstacle to any such plot was Tsaldaris' War Minister General George Kondylis, who once said, "King George will return over my dead body." Last week, at the instigation of Premier Tsaldaris who was ill with kidney trouble, Kondylis announced that the Government is willing to let the Greek people vote on whether they want a republic or a monarchy. Greek politicians hastened to climb on the monarchist bandwagon. And George II dodged mysteriously and importantly around Paris and London, letting underlings whisper to newshawks...
...Zion, Ill. a mechanic named Carl Swanson built a homemade plane of washing machine parts, baling wire, canvas, door hinges, equipped it with a motorcycle engine, took it up for a test-flight last week. Pilot Swanson had never had a flying lesson. The flight ended after three minutes. His condition: serious...
...from his field stronghold at Kweiyang. In press handouts the Generalissimo reported that Comrade Mao Tse-tung ("Chinese Lenin") now has no fixed headquarters or abode but moves with his Chinese Soviet Government in nomadic fashion from province to province. Moreover the Chinese Lenin was said to be so ill that he has to be carried on a stretcher...