Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chartered the heretofore independent Progressive Mine Workers of America, now largely confined to the Illinois coal fields, as a national rival of the United Mine Workers of America, key union in John L. Lewis' C.I.O. structure; authorized a radio invasion of John L. Lewis' membership via A.F. of L. Station WCFL, Chicago. As an oldtime United Mine Worker Mr. Green bitterly fought, bitterly despised the "dual" Progressives. Having been expelled by U.M.W., ex-Miner Green last week said A.F. of L. would support its new international to the utmost, did not say whether he himself would join...
...Key Is Self-Reliance...
Japanese soldiers advanced only by yards last week on the 30-mile zigzag front along the Grand Canal north of Suchow, key point in the defense of the crucially important Lunghai Railway in north central China. While General Li Tsung-jen, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Central Army, poured thousands of fresh troops into the heavy fortifications along the Yi River, the Japanese, far removed from their bases, showed signs of weariness. The Chinese "Hindenburg Line" guarding the railway still held fast...
...disclosing that as much as 150,000 tons of wheat have been bought by the Government in a single day, plus correspondingly gigantic purchases of sugar and whale oil. (The British lower classes can subsist indefinitely on bread and margarine-in which whale oil is a key ingredient.) What Sir John was really doing, as he "opened" the Budget last week, was unlocking the State secret that His Majesty's Government have craftily completed the first step necessary to prepare the Empire against immediate attack -i.e., for war (see p. 75). They have stocked their grocery shelves with enough...
...railway line, defending his provisional capital in Hankow. The Japanese had captured a dozen towns and appeared this time to have thrown enough men and equipment into the series of battles raging at points on a great semicircular front around Suchow-Fu to make the Chinese positions around that key city almost untenable...