Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan's objectives in bombing Canton are: 1) destruction of the city's military defenses and crushing the southern terminus of the Hankow-Canton railway, China's main pipeline for supplies now pouring in through Britain's Crown Colony of Hong Kong. 90 miles south of Canton at the mouth of the Pearl River; 2) the demoralization of the civilian population. By the end of last week the first had not been achieved-Chinese anti-aircraft batteries still blazed away at the bombers, stores of munitions were still intact, and the vital railway was still open...
...raid alarms, and the huge Fung Keng rubber plant. Scores of bombs, aimed at the Pearl River bridge, connecting the city with the industrial island suburb of Honam, fell along the waterfront, smashing sampans into wet and bloody splinters. Incendiary bombs plumped in Standard Oil storage tanks near the main Wongsha rail station, sent a 16-car train and the station roaring up in flames. The mammoth Sun Yat-sen Memorial Auditorium
...bronze copy of the Discobolus of Myron, the gift of Ernest W. Longfellow '65, that stood on the lawn in front of the main entrance of the Hemenway gymnasium, will be set up in front of new buliding...
...with an injunction by a Pittsburgh judge on the ground that the monopoly accusation had been settled by the 1912 consent decree. It took a U. S. Supreme Court decision and a set of minor court skirmishes to get Alcoa finally to court in Manhattan last week for the main show. Nonetheless, Alcoa asserts it has not delayed unnecessarily, that it is eager for the trial, all issues of which it says have been amply aired and settled by previous investigations and trials...
Another international banker is James Speyer, who has as broad a German accent as though he had just arrived from Frankfurt-am-Main, where Speyers have been bankers since the 18th Century. Actually he was born in Manhattan. His interest in Manhattan history is institutionalized in the Museum of the City of New York, to which he gave $450,000. John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave the same. Persistent at the time was a story that Mr. Rockefeller wanted to give more but Mr. Speyer preferred that no gift be bigger than his. Speyer & Co. rarely has taken part...