Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reuniting the largest and most ancient country in the world in the face of common danger; for learning perforce to unleash bombs from nowhere, mines from nowhere, planes from nowhere in a land where every gesture is a tradition; for advancing national progress and a New Life in spite of centuries of worship and changelessness, all credit belongs to the Couple of the Year, China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mei-ling Chiang...
...Like Hell" Three days later Japanese invaders and Chinese defenders of the various Shanghai areas and environs subjected them to the most terrific chastisement of the War. The offensive recently prepared by Chinese land forces (TIME, Oct. 18) was launched in ghastly sword-to-bayonet, hand-to-throat scrimmages which broke Japanese barriers erected in captured sectors of the Chapei slums, carried Chinese screaming with triumph into mastery of numerous crooked alleyways and shattered streets. Japanese and Chinese machine gunners in some cases kept dueling at each other from behind splintered walls only a few yards apart. Chinese bombing raiders...
...dozens of great fires broke out and Chinese and Japanese shells not aimed at the Settlement screamed over it. there were gruesome accidents. The Chinese motorman of a Shanghai trolley car, seeing that a big bomb was going to land in the street ahead of it, applied his brakes and yelled warnings to his 14 passengers, clanged his bell. An instant later the bomb exploded 20 feet in front of the trolley, blew it to blazes, killing the motorman, all his passengers and some people standing in the street, while other pedestrians who miraculously escaped found their clothes soaked...
...quarter of a million prisoners-a larger number of slaves than the Pharaohs mobilized to build their pyramids, than Peter the Great mobilized to build his new capital-hacked a canal between the White and the Baltic Seas. . . . Two-thirds of the peasantry and four-fifths of the plowed land were 'socialized' -that is, owned and managed by the state-employer as it owned and managed factories and workers. The defensive ability of the country, in a military sense, had been vastly increased, with new mechanical bases for its war industries...
...square mile. When highway construction-last month closed the road to Chattanooga, township Mayor I. H. Wheeler quickly asked the Southern Railway to stop its crack New York-New Orleans limited at Trenton to supplement the sole, inconveniently-timed local. The 10:25 a. m. northerly limited would land Trentonians half an hour later in Chattanooga, give them opportunities for business and shopping, while the southerly limited would carry them home again around 5 o'clock...