Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced Sir John's peace proposal meant little to the Chinese and Japanese in the line. Twice in 24 hours Chinese and Japanese troops swept back and forth across Chapei's Paitse Bridge. Japan threatened to carry bombing operations 50 miles inland if further Chinese reinforcements arrived. This would mean bombing the richest paddy fields in China, between Shanghai and Nanking. Shanghai's defender, pale scholarly General Tsai Ting-kai risked it. Thirty-nine years old, he boasts that this is his 170th military campaign...
...cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among the Arabs, due to Bin Sa'ud's benign but determined autocracy, made the journey possible. From the coast of the Arabian Sea, Explorer Thomas sent inland two Rashidi tribesmen to collect camels, men to conduct him over the Qara mountains to the desert's edge. Shaikh Salih went ahead to organize a relay, prepare the desert ways. So well did he prepare them that the final dash through enemies' territory passed without hitch or hobble...
...Chargé d'Affaires William J. McCafferty in San Salvador was genuinely alarmed last week. A Communist army had risen in three Pacific Coast provinces, attacked the towns of La Libertad, Ahuachapan and Sousonate, moved inland and was fighting for Santa Tecla, only eight miles from the capital. Telephone lines had been cut, railroads torn up. San Salvador was threatened next. Chargé d'Affaires McCafferty was familiar with Central American revolutions led by generals or politicians. He had failed to get excited when such a revolt overthrew the Salvador Government two months ago, set up a military...
...hours bickering and dickering with representatives of a syndicate of four Canadian banks. Was it a sale? Next day in Montreal, Canada, where most of Newfoundland's fiscal news breaks first, eager newshawks pounced on Sir Percy Thompson, deputy chairman of the British Board of Inland Revenue recently "loaned" to Newfoundland. Waving away all question of the sale or lease of Labrador, Sir Percy announced that a loan (he would not say how much) had been extended to Newfoundland by the four Canadian banks: Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Bank...
...settle an ancient argument between farmers with poultry and fine gentlemen with horses and hounds, Virginia's Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries last week set aside $500 and made an announcement : The next 500 foxes killed in Virginia will be sent to the Commission, their stomachs examined, the question settled, once & for all, of just what a fox does...