Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light Achilles (7,030 tons) and the heavy Exeter (8,390 tons) -were flanking out to sea. Ajax apparently did the same, astern of Spee. This meant two disadvantages for the German -shoals and shore to starboard, glaring rising sun behind the enemy to port. Captain Langsdorff gave the order to work out to sea, into deeper water...
...years of hard work and good living, Broun was close to death. As he fought his fever in a dim room high above the Hudson River, in the Presbyterian Hospital's Harkness Pavilion, he could reflect that he had at least put all his varied affairs in order...
Last week Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard's paper got in trouble when it used some ugly words in connection with some of Long's followers. But the Item was only saying openly what other New Orleans papers have said by implication for years...
...Paterson, N. J., at the works of the other big aircraft engine builder, Wright Aeronautical Corp., another plant extension is springing up under the watering of another French grant. Wright's expansion is financed by a French order said to be $30,000,000, will nearly double its capacity of about 400* Cyclones a month. Meanwhile, in Indianapolis, General Motors' new Allison plant is getting into production on its high-powered, liquid-cooled engines to go into new Army pursuit ships. By the middle of the summer the production of the three plants in military engines may well...
...situation is even more complicated." he declared, "by the extreme disagreement between Japan's foreign policy and ours. They talk of a new order in East Asia, an order dominated by Japan and subordinating all the great western powers...