Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people . . . want America to be prepared to defend that frontier."† Whereupon the House voted (367-to-15) to appropriate about $376,000,000 to up the U. S. Army Air Corps, from 2,320 to 5,500 planes, 21,500 to 45,000 men, otherwise flesh out the land forces. Next on the House Rearmament calendar: $52,000,000 for Guam and ten other naval bases...
With nobody in either camp unreservedly for war, but plenty of war talk ringing through the land, this week two slim but articulate volumes by best-selling public thinkers hit the bookstalls. Each is released by the same publisher, Harcourt, Brace & Co., and the company is due to lose no money by the fact that each speaks the will of an opposing camp...
Count Teleki retained the former Premier's Cabinet intact, that he announced that the Imredy racial laws and land reform schemes would not be scrapped. But the Jewish legislation was expected to be modified in application if not on the statute books and land reform would probably be slowed up. Weak Hungary could not afford to slap the Nazis directly in the face by abandoning the bills. The new Government was expected outwardly to comply with Nazi wishes, but at the same time quietly to sabotage the laws' effectiveness...
Most exotic of British sports is otter hunting with a specially trained pack of hounds. Streamlined as a small seal, the otter is fast as a dog on land, much faster in water. In the U. S., otter hunting has never become a formalized sport. If it did, it would probably be acclimatized into something different, as was indicated last week at Manhattan's Fourth Annual National Sportsmen's Show. There Emil Liers, Minnesota trapper, proudly exhibited his pack of twelve otters, only ones ever bred, raised and trained in captivity. He has taught them to do practically...
Tailspin (Twentieth Century-Fox). In its protracted series of aviation pictures, the cinema has shown men fliers at home and abroad, over sea and land, dead and alive. It has rarely, however, shown women fliers. Tailspin rectifies this neglect with a band of young women aviators (Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly) engaged in transcontinental races, parachute jumps, spectacular crashes and the amatory adventures which, in the cinema, naturally accompany all such hazardous undertakings...