Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, what the Japanese Army had envisaged as a cheap, comparatively easy three-month romp through the northern provinces had dragged out to a year of costly, still undeclared war, with the end nowhere in sight. Japan has overrun an area twice as large as France and Germany (see map, p. 15), has captured eight provincial capitals, and has extended her campaign through twelve provinces of North and Central China. All of China's main ports, except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken...
...patriotic and industrious son of the South is 22-year-old Harry S. Ashmore, reporter for the Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Irked by the heart-rending accounts of the South's shortcomings by itinerant northern journalists, Reporter Ashmore decided to spend his two-week vacation in "the deep North to see how they managed to cast the first stone."* New York City, the indignant reporter found, was the "sweatshop capital of America," its slums squalid and crime-breeding. New England's textile cities seemed to him "not far from being industrial ghost cities." In Philadelphia, he found more...
...giant fir, spruce, cedar and hemlock, their abounding game (trout, bear, cougar as well as elk), their scenery. Also during the War, the Government built a spruce production railroad there to get out special woods for airplane construction. The lumbering now is mostly in private hands (Weyerhaeuser, Long-Bell, Northern Pacific) and the jagged boundaries of the new park (see map) reflect many compromises between private and public forest ownership...
There were visits to the reclaimed Pontine Marshes, Florence, Milan and the northern Italian lakes. Described to the delegates were Dopolavoro's 1,227 theatres in which are given 25,000 performances annually, Saturday matinees with seats selling at 2½, 5? and 10?. The delegates were taken to the sumptuous Dopolavoro clubhouse of the Air Force employes, and to the equally impressive railroaders' Dopolavoro club in Rome: 100 guest bedrooms, a theatre seating 1,500 persons, a library of 7,000 volumes, a restaurant, bar, poolroom, bocci-ball court, gymnasium. Also on view were "Thespis Cars," trucks...
...descendant of Daniel Boone, a newspaperman who has worked in Honolulu, New York, the Dutch East Indies, Author Robertson called his family chronicle Travelers' Rest. When Northern firms turned it down he organized the Cottonfield Publishers with two friends, brought out the book at a cost equal to the price of "19 bales of eight-cent cotton." An honest, spotty book. Travelers' Rest traces the violent history of an old Southern family through their fights with nature, the neighbors, and each other, shows old pioneers with their buckskins off and their coonskin caps hanging from the wrong hatracks...