Word: niagara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Niagara of Bombs. Savage Japanese bombing ahead of her advancing troops explained some of their successes, scarcely all. Foreign military attaches were frankly amazed when the middle Japanese spearhead plunged with seeming ease into Chaoyang, the second largest Jehol city, supposed to have been defended by large Chinese forces guarding an "impregnable pass." Swooping down on more than 1,000 Chinese soldiers in the pass, an entire Japanese air squadron loosed a Niagara of thundering bombs. "I think," reported the Japanese squadron leader, "that we just about wiped them...
...during a series of international and national Lenten broadcasts* sponsored by the New York Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society. This week London's stalwart Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram leads off. Others: New York's Bishop Manning, Montreal's Bishop Farthing, Washington's Bishop Freeman, Niagara, Canada's Bishop Owen, Chicago's Bishop Stewart...
...Niagara River, famed Niagara Falls, frozen, had almost entirely stopped falling...
...June, Floyd Leslie Carlisle served notice on the N. E. L. A. that it must purge itself if it wished to avoid stringent Federal supervision. Floyd Carlisle comes from that centre of natural power, upstate New York. He is the robust board chairman of six companies (one of them, Niagara Hudson, is world's largest producer), speaks for the Morgan utility interests, is the nation's No. 1 power tycoon. Last week he and Board Chairman Bernard Capen Cobb of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. did something about it. They invited the nation's utility tycoons to a dinner...
...Their father was Jules Piccard, professor of chemistry at the University of Basle. A third son, Paul, helped install the first hydro-electric turbines at Niagara Falls...