Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, as a courtesy submitted the question and his information to the little War Secretary in advance. Shocked was Mr. Hore-Belisha to find that the "information" had come from a secret document drawn up by a top-rank Air officer, which contained emergency directions showing the exact number and positions of guns during the critical German-Austrian Anschluss weekend. Since M. P.s are not allowed to hold active commissions in the regular armed forces, most of them depend on private "leaks" for their inside information...
According to the 64-year-old Duchess, the Rightists have planted more than 20 large guns of German make in the hills around Algeciras, commanding Gibraltar; a number of long-range 5.9-inch weapons have been installed along the coast "so placed that they could drop shells in Gibraltar but yet are invisible from the highest point on the rock": nine naval-type guns are located on Punta Carnero, on the west side of Gibraltar bay, and at least one 15-inch weapon on a high peak near Alcála de los Gazules, some 40 miles inland; 45 more...
Illustrative of the growth of espionage in France is the fact that in 1932 only 16 spies were caught, that in 1934 a total of 95, 84 of them foreigners, were caught. During 1937 the number jumped to 150 for the Strasbourg area in Alsace alone and this year an average of nearly four spies a week, mainly German and Italian, have been detected near France's famed Maginot Line...
...shark-infested waters, escape from Devil's Island-until 1895 a leper colony-is considered impossible, has never succeeded. From the mainland, however, escape in Small open canoes down the river, across mudbanks, finally to some distant friendly shore is not only possible but, judging from the number of successful attempts, a rigorous yet comparatively easy undertaking...
...Pittsburgh, in the book department of the Joseph Home Co., The Yearling, My Son, My Son! and Neil Swanson's The Forbidden Ground were tied all month, had sold exactly the same number of copies at month...