Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Divo was in Panama City during the month of September 1936 and at that time arrangements were made for his continued use of Essolube Motor Oil for the Northern lap of his trip from Buenos Aires to New York. From this point contact was made with our representatives in San Jose, Managua, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador and Guatemala City requesting that the proper courtesies be extended upon his arrival. The Huasteca Petroleum Co. of Mexico was also notified with the request that they in turn contact associate companies across the U. S. border. We, therefore, were most interested in reading...
Jean Peron, a 6 ft. 4 in., 250-lb. Frenchman, broke his leg in a northern Ontario gold mine in 1930, was compelled to give up mining engineering, eventually became a journalist. One night last week the blue-eyed, 50-year-old M. Peron was busy in his little office on Ste. Catherine Street in Montreal preparing the next edition of his two-year-old weekly, La Clarté (The Light). Suddenly six provincial police barged in, seized all correspondence and files, evicted Editor Peron and his assistant, stoutly padlocked La Clarte's doors and windows. In M. Peron...
Japanese brought a new army to the Shanghai sector of the war last week. Hitherto they have bitten at the Shanghai peninsula exclusively along the northern edge of its tip. Last week they landed forces along the southern edge under cover of thick fog. Surprised Chinese battled the Japanese landing parties hand-to-hand, but the Son of Heaven's troops gained a solid footing, preparatory to Japanese efforts to nip off Shanghai from the rest of China by closing pincers from the North and South, now that Japan's frontal attack has failed to take Shanghai...
...freight order, a 55-ton shipment. Fortnight ago, the same line signed the largest air express contract on record and last week reported the successful completion of the first dozen bites into the 1,000,000 Ib. of equipment that it has agreed to fly over the Andes into northern Bolivia to reopen a gold mine abandoned two centuries...
...White went down to look things over. After a year and a half of investigation they returned with a skeletonized, unemotional array of case histories, native opinion, commentary and camera evidence on the drearines's and degradation of plantation workers' lives that will chill the stomachs of Northern readers, may remove what charm remains for them in Mammy songs...