Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farther Japanese troops push into China, the poorer grow the folks at home. To Japanese army leaders the solution is obvious-soak Japan's few rich even harder. To do so, the army wants to invoke Article 11 of the National Mobilization Act passed by the last Diet. This article makes it possible not only to limit industrial profits, but to direct how they should be used...
...Otto Strasser, whose brother Gregor fought Hitler for control of the Nazi Party before being shot in the "Roehm Purge" in 1934, has completed plans to establish a floating radio station aboard a ship which will soon push out from its English base and cruise in the North Sea, whence it will send anti-Nazi propaganda into Germany...
...military side, both nations took steps to stand off Hitler's eastward push. Only 25 miles from completion was a 450-mile, four-lane highway running from Moscow to Minsk, near the Polish border, which can be used to transport Soviet troops and supplies to Poland if necessary. Poland, whose sizable army is one of the best-trained and officered among the small nations of Europe, announced that in the next three years an additional $300,000,000 would be spent on her armed forces and border defenses...
Most likely spots for the Big Push are the Sagunto sector, where the Insurgent drive on Valencia was halted by the Loyalist counteroffensive on the Ebro four months ago, or the area around Lerida in the north, where an Insurgent break-through would place Franco within striking distance of Barcelona...
Chief hope of the Loyalists when the Big Push gets under way is to start a diverting counterthrust at some inactive section of the front. So far this maneuver has always stopped Franco sooner or later because he has never had enough men to fight in two big areas at the same time...