Word: mission
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French military mission, anticipating the day when American factories will turn out tons of French war material, arrived in the U. S. to arrange "educational orders...
...city that has grown from 635,000 to an estimated 2,000,000 in six months. Generalissimo Chiang and his wife inspected the areas bombed in the earlier raids. The power plant was functioning again. A Harvard graduate named Theodore White went to his room in the Canadian-French mission school. The Associated Press correspondent stepped out of his office. Suddenly, out of the leaden sky, at 6:30, 27 Japanese bombers swept in on Chungking from the north...
...bomb hit 60 feet from the Associated Press building. One crashed through the roof of the British Embassy & Consulate. Another fell on the tennis court, killed 20 Chinese. The Canadian-French mission was demolished, the mangled body of a Chinese woman blown 200 yards through the window of Harvardman White's room. A bomb struck the Chungking power station. Chungking's radio went dead, the city's lights went out. The home of the British Vice Consul was struck three times, and fires surrounded the German Embassy & Consulate where, all night, the Consul General and his wife...
...section where Germán Busch was born, not far from most of Standard Oil's Bolivian fields. Dionisio Foianini studied pharmacy in Italy, returned to Bolivia before the Chaco War broke out, was put in charge of munitions manufacture. Then he visited Argentina on a secret mission and organized Bolivian espionage behind Paraguayan lines. Dionisio Foianini rushed to the Chaco when the war ended, persuaded Army officers that expropriating $17,000,000 worth of Standard Oil properties would be a popular political move, set up a State Petroleum Board to exploit the appropriated fields...
Rowe and Stern were chosen out of is limited field of competitors by the Phillips Brooks House Committee which annually co-operates with the Grenfell Mission in this undertaking. The Mission operates in Labrador as a medical and service Bureau...