Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roger N. Baldwin '05, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Clarence B. Randall '12, Vice-President, and Director of the Inland Steel Company have been selected to give lectures under the Godkin Foundation on April 25, 26, 28, and 29 on "Civil Liberties and Industrial Conflict...
...Chinese last week continued their magnificent defense of their so-called "Hindenburg Line" (TIME, March 21), protecting the vital east-west Lunghai Railroad, showed stubborn resistance particularly at Kaifeng, some 300 miles inland from the Yellow Sea. Jubilantly, Chinese General Hsu Pei-ken, press officer to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, declared, "The Japanese are in the soup...
...here, there & everywhere, Indianapolis' Mayor Walter C. Boetcher and Airport Manager Nish Dienhart descended on Washington, grandly offered the north-west 400 acres of their new 974-acre, $1,500,000 municipal airport to the B. A. C. as a free gift from a great-hearted city. Safely inland in case of war, less than eight miles from downtown Monument Circle, the airport is completely equipped, free of obstructions, has unlimited acreage for expansion, and would make an ideal permanent test field. To make B. A. C. feel at home, the city is prepared to float...
...North China, meanwhile, the 400,000 Chinese troops were holding off the Japanese advance in the Suchow sector with some success. Large Japanese forces were then found to be sweeping around their flank some distance inland, and neutral experts debated whether the 400,000 would be trapped, routed, or might succeed in withdrawing in good order. Although the Japanese flanking movement came mostly down along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerilla troops recaptured last week a 75-mile section of that railway in territory nominally "conquered" by Japan. Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep...
...campuses was begun last fortnight by the International Student Service, founded in 1919 to aid starving students in Europe. There are now 30,000 such in China. Apart from what U. S. mission boards are doing, China hopes to keep its higher learning aglow by establishing four university centres inland, away from war zones, which most students may attend for nothing. Two such centres have already been started, at Changsha in Hunan Province, and Sian in Shensi...