Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo has been fought by the official Japanese and Russian "news" agencies. The Soviet news bureau, for example, killed 800 Japanese and shot down 45 planes in a four-day battle. The Japanese official releases retaliated by wrecking 100 Russian tanks, shooting down 53 planes. How much of all this was fact or fiction no one knew, for there was no accredited neutral correspondent within days of the trouble-spot. Only the Japanese wounded jamming Harbin hospitals showed the world outside that the border war was not entirely imaginary. Last week Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines...
...crack troops garrisoned in Manchukuo. The "Kwantung clique," headed by War Minister General Seishiro Itagaki and the radical young officers of the Kwantung Army, is a law unto itself. In 1931, when it decided Manchuria was ripe for plucking, it manufactured the "Mukden Incident" and marched in from Korea, much to the surprise of the Tokyo Government. In Manchukuo it runs the whole show, bossing the Government of Emperor Kang Teh (Henry Pu Yi) and owning or controlling every major industry. Many Kwantung officers deplore the Japanese invasion of western China, believe that the destruction of the Russian menace that...
...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 of the Nazis pointed out that the use of Party Comrade brought Germany that much nearer to the Soviet Union, where the usual address is "Comrade," others saw in it simply a continuation of the deification process of the Führer...
...automobile tires butadiene rubber has about three times the endurance of natural rubber. Therefore, at 20? a pound, it would be much cheaper, on a tire mileage basis than the 14? a pound at which natural para rubber is currently quoted. Dr. Egloff believes that U. S. commercial production of his butadiene rubber will get under way in less than a year...
...manager's job in the major leagues, Bobby Jones was an aging, paunchy Atlanta lawyer, Paavo Nurmi was managing a tidy fortune invested in Finnish real estate. Having accepted a back seat or had it thrust upon them, none of these once-great sporting figures was much more than a brave memory...