Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resumed a halted offensive at another, this time along the Tientsin-Pukow railroad, 175 miles east of Kaifeng and 125 miles from the Yellow Sea. Japanese forces hurled themselves southward along the railway in an attempt to capture Suchow, strategic junction of the Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow lines and main defense centre of the "Hindenburg Line." Furiously battling Chinese sought to stem the advance by hammering away with repeated flank attacks until some 30,000 were reported killed on both sides. By week's end Japanese planes had bombed Suchow in preparation for a land assault and the Japanese...
...died, but Mastery of the Air has become the standard text of thousands of young air officers in every land who hold with what is called "the Douhet theory." In effect this teaches that the civilian population of an attacked country, their homes, shops and municipal services, have become main military objectives of today-since aviation now permits an invading army to wage much of the war behind the enemy's lines, crack morale, force surrender. In Spain, Douhet disciples point out, the use by aircraft of poison sprays and bombs (which was decisive in Ethiopia) has virtually...
...speed a flat 250 m.p.h.; a wing 250 ft. long and triple fuselage accommodating 120 passengers, crew of 16, a dining room for 50, observation deck, cocktail bar, promenade, 70 toilets and a lifeboat. Pontoons serve also as shock absorbers, retract in flight into the hulls of the two main fuselages. The whole ship in stainless steel, by collaboration with Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co.. costs an unheard...
Inside the Journal, readers found sensational matter. The gist of three main charges...
...there are 37 National Dollar Stores, one as far east as Kansas City. Despite their name, they sell such things as women's dresses for as much as $4.95. They are moderately profitable: Last year, on sales of $7,000,000, profit was about $170,000. Main thing that distinguishes them from competitors like J. C. Penney Co. is that they are entirely run and largely owned by Chinese. Some 90% of National Dollar's clerks (the figure fluctuates seasonally from 400 to 1,500) are white, but each store's manager is yellow. And the head...