Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jumping off from Hainan Island, which the Japanese have held by squatters' rights since February, a combined Army-Navy party braved a monsoon and heavy rain, landed on the China coast near Pakhoi, about 100 miles from the Indo-Chinese border, and thence drove inland toward the city of Nanning. This was their long-expected drive to cut the routes to China from French Indo-China and British Burma. It was a threat not only to China (which will be dry as a rootless tree if the routes are cut) but also to French and British and indirectly Dutch...
...orphanages stand as tribute to the energy of one man, this doctor, whose name has become synonymous with Labrador. In the widest possible sense he has educated the people not to suffer on the barest edge of the land but to develop the resources--timber and minerals--which lie inland...
Spokane, Wash. (U.P.)--The collegiate spirit prevailed when small towns that dot the inland empire were first named. Across the Idaho-Washington state line in heavily timbered country are seven tiny villages, named by a group of college students. Their names are Wellesley, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pur due, and Stanford...
...Nazi air-raiders--12 or 14 Heinkels and Dorniers--struck in a bold attempt to bomb Britain's Rosyth naval base and the huge bridge over the Firth of Forth nine miles inland from Edinburgh...
From these rigid wartime prohibitions, the Senate exempted only 1) the 20 other Latin-American republics, 2) shipping to nations bordering the U. S. via inland waters, 3) shipping by air and sea within the Western Hemisphere, to any port, of mail, persons, personal effects, and goods to be used exclusively by U. S. vessels. Penalty for violations of any major section of the bill was set at $50,000, five years in jail, or both...