Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President received Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, and approved plans to push ahead at once the building of the following new craft: four battleships, four light cruisers, one aircraft carrier, eight destroyers, six submarines. The President exercised discretion vested in him by Congress by deciding not, at this time, to raise the tonnage on two of the battleships from 35,000 tons...
...Benes (pronounced Benesh), that Adolf is their neighbor, Hitler, that the fence is a cup-shaped chain of mountains along the Czech-German border, a chain about the height of Vermont's Green Mountains. Since the Sixth Century this fence has served as a barrier against the eastward push of Teutonic tribes, but never has its protective power been of such worldwide concern as in 1938. Inhabited largely by Germans, the whole length of the fence has come to be known as the Sudeten region, although the Sudetes Mountains form only the northern side...
Year later the Allied peacemakers, in the Treaty of St. Germain, set the boundaries for the new nation. To give Czecho-Slovakia a natural barrier which would serve to halt a German push to the east, the Allies, pressed by France and England, forwent strict interpretation of the principle of self-determination and recognized the Czech claim to the Sudeten region, largely populated by Germans. Also included within the frontiers was a small Polish minority in Silesia, a larger Hungarian minority in south Slovakia and the inhabitants of Carpathian Ruthenia, formerly under Hungarian rule, who requested union with...
Japanese forces last week made their main push along the strategic Lunghai east-west railroad, which at Chengchow connects with the Peking-Hankow line (see map). Fortnight ago, retreating Chinese turned and drove an advance column of 10,000 Japanese, under famed little Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, "Lawrence of Manchuria," into a bottleneck area between the broad Yellow River and the railway. For nine days Chinese forces, often behind providential screens of swirling yellow dust, charged at the Japanese ranks, attempted to wipe out the 10,000. Finally Japanese reinforcements forded the river from the north under artillery bombardment, helped...
...city. Japanese shock troops pressed at its sides. Capture of Chengchow would enable the Japanese to right-angle down 300 miles of railway to Hankow. Only serious obstacle in their path will be the Chinese defense fortifications in the southern Honan mountains near Sinyang. Meanwhile, two Japanese forces pushing from the Nanking area to Hankow, one paralleling the swollen Yangtze, the other striking overland through southern Anhwei Province, last week were bogged down by heavy rains, inefficient transport. After a long silence, small Japanese warships shelled towns on the Yangtze some 60 miles upriver from Wuhu, leading observers to believe...