Word: ob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peking; Nanking, capital of China, fell one month later. Chinese officials fled Nanking, designated Chunking, far in the interior, as the seat of their Government and set up Hankow as their de facto capital. Last week, Japanese warships were within 135 miles of this Yangtze River city and most ob servers agreed that it would be in Japanese hands before autumn frosts...
With water damaging Los Angeles to the extent of three million and devestating much Southern California life and property, it is easy to think that the series of floods in America constitute a westward movement. Although little truth lies in certain movie heroes became real for a day, ob-the report that the migration was paralyzed when viously the wetting Hollywood got was the biggest spectacle since De Mille threw Christians to the lions. Whether this trend will move across the Pacific next winter and submerge all nice Japanese, no one knows. If such a thing happens, the United States...
Fact was that, in spite of his vague offers of truce and invitations to Messrs. Carlisle & Willkie, so far President Roosevelt had not even hinted a willingness to compromise his power policies on any ground acceptable to private powermen. And in the opinion of Washington ob- servers he was not likely to compromise unless Recession grew even blacker. The pressure from the Right wing of the Administration was heavy but his advisers on the Left wing urged him to hold out until after the major legal tests of the power program are decided. The Duke Power case (PWA grants...
...Hunsaker, ih; J.P. Hunsaker and Haristone, ob; Cleveland, la; Scott and Baker, 2a; Campion, e; Duffey, 2d; Magurn and Baum, ld; Whittemore and White, p; Whitherspoon, cp; Howard and Harrigan, goal...
...tremendously hot gas at 1,000,000 m.p.h. By last week it had jumped 13 magnitudes to the first, acquired a name, Nova Herculis 1934. Its radiation had increased 200,000 times; it was among the twelve brightest stars in the sky. Directors Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Ob servatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory obtained remarkable spectra, said the star might be the most important stellar outburst ever witnessed...