Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North. Italy's troops had drawn up on a 60 mile A-A-A (Aksum-Aduwa-Adigrat) front. Between them and Makale, their next important objective, stood the 8,000 ft. mountain of Gual Azai. To protect the Italian forces leftward under General Santini from a flank attack, General Diamanti led 3,000 Blackshirts and an indefinite number of black-faced Askaris in a nine-mile drive round the mountain. General Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli commanding the centre moved his men forward at the same time to capture the rich Feres Mai Valley and a number of important wells. Nowhere...
Reason: the Eastern Army, striving to bite its way in from Assab on the Red Sea to cut Ethiopia's only railway near Dire Dawa, (see p. 17), faces obstacles of terrain all but insurmountable. It must skirt the blazing, uninhabitable Danakil Desert, worm its way up jagged mountain gorges, cross fever-ridden swamps. Only chance for quick success depended on bribing the local Ethiopian satrap, Ras Yayou, who styles himself "Sultan of Aussa...
...Army Nobody Knows until they are victorious, permitted no confirmation or denial of its tribulations. Meanwhile, the Southern Army of properly-publicized General Rodolfo Graziani slogged up the banks of the Webbe Shibeli River in an unseasonable downpour until they came on a fortified Ethiopian post on a little mountain at Dagneri, 60 mi. into Ethiopia. Italian native troops delivered an old-fashioned charge, 14 of them to the death, took the hill, and back in Italy, newspapers blossomed with VITTORIA headlines...
...Behind the mountain of facts & figures still required in registration statements is a hard-headed theory often ignored by New Deal critics. Says SEC, in effect: "We know that investors will never take the trouble to plough through a registration statement. We know that many of them will not even read an offering prospectus, though we now insist that they at least have one in their hand before buying. Probably they would not understand it if they did read it. This mass of information is assembled, not for the average investor, but for the people who help make...
...Rocky Mountain: Raymond G. Jones '39, Canon City, Colo...