Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...costly, still undeclared war, with the end nowhere in sight. Japan has overrun an area twice as large as France and Germany (see map, p. 15), has captured eight provincial capitals, and has extended her campaign through twelve provinces of North and Central China. All of China's main ports, except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken four months after the outbreak at Peking; Nanking, capital of China, fell one month later. Chinese officials fled Nanking, designated Chunking, far in the interior...
...home Japan finds the estimated $4,000,000-a-day cost of the war a severe strain on her finances. Main sections of the National Mobilization Act, placing all phases of the national life under government control, have had to be invoked...
...ready to adjourn. Out it marched to the World's Fair, busily abuilding, made an honorary life member of onetime Teacher Eleanor Roosevelt. Presiding over the convention's final meeting, Mrs. Roosevelt introduced the main speaker. Said she: "It is the privilege of a presiding officer to make a speech. I will not avail myself of that privilege. May I present the President of the United States...
...trust with a boat. But no boy with the sea in his heart can scan the horizon long without yearning. Lyle Tara yearned to sail the 3,000-odd miles to Cocos Island, off the Costa Rican coast, where legend says pirates of the Spanish Main used to bury Inca gold. Into the pattern of his dream fitted the snug white 52-foot ketch Tira, which most of the time rode baresticked at her mooring because her owner, well-to-do Lew Foote, a busy Santa Cruz merchant, had little time for long cruises...
...Main reason for the Bank of America's glowing report was that since 1935, along with such other big U. S. banks as Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. and National City Bank of New York, it has been in the personal loan business. To date Bank of America has loaned more than $200,000,000 for consumer purchases, more than $124,000,000 on FHA loans. Loans to individuals. Banker Giannini believes, are the best of all credit risks-and personal loans pay 5% to 10%, well above the 1% to 3% conservative investments bring. Hence, Bank...