Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rail link down which Soviet munitions are brought to aid China. Chinese troops held towns far on the other side of the Hindenburg Line, and Chinese Communist forces were operating in Hopeh last week with such success that at times the Japanese lost briefly towns and villages along their main rail lines of supply & conquest. Impudent, chuckling, the Chinese Communist Yu Cheng-tsao cracked that his bands are hunting Japanese in a "Communist State" just formed by "7,000,000 Chinese farmers" in Hopeh...
Last Chapter? In Spain this week the U. S. diplomatic mission at Barcelona was packing up to withdraw toward France. The main force of some 60,000 Spanish Rightists under General Juan Yague, advancing toward Lérida, "the Key to Barcelona," found themselves briefly balked at the Cinca River. The People's Army had blown up all bridges for 50 miles along the Cinca to cover their retreat. Wading chest deep through the icy waters, the 60,000 Rightists crossed at Fraga, which had just been reduced to shambles by 160 Rightist bombers. Pontoon bridges were then flung...
...made his way down to the first floor, where he found himself at an impasse with a series of bound volumes of the New York Herald Tribune. So he wended, or wound, his way back up the four flights, out the delivery desk, and down to the main floor again, and found the elevator by the process of elimination and antagonization, being then 20 minutes late...
...promises. It steals property through taxes, steals money through devaluation of the currency (which he compares to the "coldblooded cheating of little children"), milks the banks, shows an unbroken record of "fraud" for 3,000 years. Finally, says Author Scherman, the combination of all these Governmental dishonesties is the main cause of depressions...
...Which small nation is likely to suffer first from further German advances depends upon whether the Party or Army will dominate German councils," Vagts pointed out. "The Army holds Poland as the main objective partly because of strategic reasons and partly because the old Junker landlord officers once resided in the territories that Germany lost to Poland...