Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last weekend, A. R. P. News readers got a little clearer view of the shape of things that may come. Britain staged its first large-scale blackout, including almost all southern England except London. Planes flew in from the coast to test the skill of volunteer "spotters" and searchlight crews. On vacant lots bombs were exploded to give the volunteer firemen, decontaminators and first-aid crews practice in rushing through darkened streets to danger spots. Observers in the air watched for lights that would be a giveaway to enemy aviators. The blackout, pronounced a success, was on an entirely volunteer...
...potential causes of the conflict, however, is the fact that the Lake Bor district lies directly across the probable line of march of a Japanese invasion into central Siberia, and on the left flank of a Russian attack on the Japanese positions in North China. Control of Outer Mongolia may be the decisive factor in a future Russo-Japanese...
...started on a 25-mile narrow-gauge line connecting Ulan Bator Khoto with the country's only coal mine. Three years ago Dictator Joseph Stalin informed the world that the U. S. S. R. would tolerate no outside interference there, and Foreign Commissar Molotov dittoed these sentiments last May...
...Last May Nazi Party headquarters in Berlin decreed that all Nazis except Adolf Hitler were to be addressed at party meetings and in political gatherings simply as Parteigenosse ("Party Comrade"). Thus Herman Göring, who can be called Field Marshal, Air Marshal, Minister President of Prussia, Reichsminister for Air, and Special Commissioner for the Four Year Plan, will hereafter be addressed simply as Party Comrade Göring. Führer Hitler, whose title was Der Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor of the Reich) was to be called Mein Führer. While some critics...
...parabolic vault with the parish house springing out at right angles from the apse. As simple and logical inside as out, the church's altar of native Kasota stone is focused by radiating rustication. The auditorium's only gadget is useful: a glass enclosed gallery where mothers may sit with infants likely to cry. Dedicated three weeks ago, St. Austin's design has done nothing but please its congregation...