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Attempting to outflank Fort Ballivian, Paraguay's shrewd General Jose Felix Estigarribia sent three full divisions inland from the Pilcomayo River. At Canada Strongest the Bolivians struck. All the world has helped supply both armies with munitions, but there was a particularly Franco-Prussian cast to the battle of Canada Strongest. Youthful General Estigarribia, Paraguayan Commander-in-Chief, is French-trained, a graduate of the French cavalry school at Saumur and the great military academy of St.-Cyr. Bolivia's General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo is German-trained and served under Bolivia's dismissed Prussian commander. General...
...troops in Hodeida, the Emir Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son and Foreign Minister, assured the world that sacking was over and the city quite safe for foreigners. His potent father, he said, had already picked him as the next King of Yemen. Then the Saudite horsemen swept inland toward the thick, sloping walls of Sana...
Other steel companies reported deficits pared or eliminated compared with the first quarter of 1933. Bethlehem reported a loss of $902,000 against a $5,769,000 loss last year. Youngstown whittled a 1933 loss of $3,473,000 to $1,423,000. Inland reported a $1,104,000 profit against a 1933 loss of $1,012,000. Republic Steel Corp. ("Rebecca" to Wall Street) lost $58,000 against $2,521,000. Wheeling also lost $58,000 but that was a big slice off last year...
...routes in two places are Western Air Express routes, one from Cheyenne to Albuquerque and the other from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles ( ). On the former route, a new mail contract will be awarded only from Cheyenne to Pueblo. Down the Atlantic Coast, from Newark to Miami and inland from Richmond to Atlanta and Jacksonville runs the Eastern Air Transport route (X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎), only one to have all its old contract routes included in the new setup. American Airways' southern transcontinental route extends from Newark...
...thousands of fissures in the wrinkled western shore of Norway is the Stor Fjord, an S-shaped water that snakes through the wall-sided mountains for 35 mi. before it branches into two smaller fjords. One of these is the Nordals Fjord and 15 mi. farther inland, on the narrow sills of shore, are the two tiny villages of Tafjord and Fjoraa. For months the villagers have looked up at a great overhanging jut of rock that was beginning to crack of its own weight. Some day, they knew, it would fall and splash into the fjord...