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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HENDAYE--Converging Insurgent columns rolled down the Mediterranean coast to within 22 miles of the important seaport of Castellon tonight after seizing three main highways and driving Loyalist troops out of the Valdancha mountains. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Brigades, concentrating their offensive at the southern edge of his nearly 50-mile coastal wedge, moved into the lush "Gardon of Levant...
...enlarging the U. S. Navy, was considering a provision to provide $15,000,000 "for development of ideas on national defense," Mr. Rice hastened to contribute. His idea: A canal across the U. S. to enable one navy to defend both coasts. His reasoning: A 360-mile ditch between the Missouri and Columbia Rivers in northern Montana would open a waterway at least six feet deep between New Orleans and Portland, Ore. (A 260-mile ditch between the Potomac and Ohio would open a waterway from Washington, D. C. to Cairo, Ill. on the Mississippi...
This most professional drive was executed by having Rightist General Garcia Escamez hotly engage a large Leftist defending force in frontal attack, while Rightist Generals Garcia Valino and Aranda swept around the Leftists' wings, met behind them and then swept on toward the Mediterranean in a 16-mile-wide offensive. Twenty miles of coast, from the outskirts of San Carlos de la Rápita to Peñiscola were in Rightist hands by week...
More expensive than all other modern improvements put together, however, scheduled to cost $160,000,000, nearly three times the annual revenue of Iran, is an 865-mile railroad line. No foreign country is to own any part of this line, no foreign loans are to be accepted. Conceived as a strategic railway, to enable the Iranians to repulse possible British invasion from the Persian Gulf, Russian invasion from the Turkomen Soviet Socialist Republic, the railroad line carefully avoids all Iran's big cities except Teheran, skirts round the Empire's more fertile districts, spans wide rivers, crosses...
...races were held over a triangular mile-long course starting from the Technology sailing pavilion. Thirteen foot dinghies, specially built for Tech three years ago, were used. Racing is open to all members of the College, and the Club's officers are planning a membership drive...