Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three quickest ways for a belligerent to get a neutral nation into a general war (as an enemy): bomb the nation's property, sink its ships, kill its people. Person most intimately concerned last week with keeping the U. S. out of the European war was the tall, athletic...
≫On the Yangtze near Ichang (in free China, 485 miles upriver from Hankow), Japanese bombers returning from killing natives sank two foreign vessels, the Jardine, Matheson & Co. river boats Kiawo and Hsin Chang Wo, and narrowly missed the river gunboat Gannet. British naval authorities suspected a new Panay incident...
But the House of Saturday, August 5, was not the House it had been all week. The fever of killing had subsided. Members' shoes were full of feet; all they wanted was to go home. Throughout the week the slickly oiled Republocratic machine, working efficiently under the Republican strategy...
In Spain, the prize War baby was Juan March, who had been born of poor peasants on the island of Majorca. Before the War, March was a small Barcelona trader who sold onions and chickens during the day and smuggled tobacco and silk by night. His smuggling flotilla came in...
To build up whaling fleets the U. S., Germany, Japan and others had to hire Norwegians. Aristocrats of whaling are the 260 Norwegian harpooners, who earn $6,000 to $15,000 apiece in the five-month season, live like Hollywood stars in Norway's whaling capital, Sandefjord. For the...