Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfamiliar to most of the 1,500,000 inhabitants of Hankow and environs are air raids, but those Orientals and whites who did not run to air-raid shelters soon learned that this one was different. Out of cloud banks north of Hankow began to dart fast pursuit planes unlike those guarding the big Japanese bombers. They dived, attacked the invaders. Soon a spectacular dog fight involving not less than no planes, with the Chinese numerically superior, had developed. Big bombers were seen crashing to the ground, some lighter craft were observed tailspinning into the neighboring Yangtze and Han Rivers...
While a Barcelona audience was witnessing The Spanish Earth, cinema of the war with comment by U. S. Novelist-Reporter Ernest Hemingway, Barcelona was visited by an air raid. The stocky, mustached novelist, spotted in the audience, was applauded for five minutes by the ecstatic Catalans after the raid was over...
...democratic traits popped out unexpectedly (when a society lady asked him if he had once been an acrobat, he proved it by walking around the room on his hands), but usually Author Lewinsohn shows Barnato smoothing over diamond diggers Rhodes had antagonized, pacifying the Boers after the abortive Jameson raid, restoring confidence in jittery diamond buyers, until his tireless peacemaking grows wearisome. The big question mark at the end of Barnato's career-why, at the age of 44, with fortune intact and prospects excellent, he killed himself-Author Lewinsohn does not answer...
...four commercial banks, flourished paper currency, demanded change-in pennies. In one bank the manager reluctantly dumped 100,000 pennies into canvas bags, turned them over to students for $1,000 in bills.* A laundry truck driver toured the city collecting pennies from housewives. Unaware of this concerted raid until too late, merchants, housewives and bankers by nightfall had given up to the penny-pinching students some 250,000 pennies, half of the city's supply. By that time Troy was beginning to mutter, and retail commerce was all but crippled. Merchants adjusted their odd-cent prices...
...Moines, Iowa, Police Sergeant Dunagan, riding in a patrol wagon with a slot machine just seized in a raid, was surprised to see two nickels drop out. An honest officer, he played them back in, hit the jack pot. Out came...