Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather, was on fire again in the worst blaze since Tillamook. At Saddle Mountain, at Wolf Creek, at Dutch Canyon, west and north of Portland, palls of smoke and ash hung over the rough country, thousands of men manned the lines with hoses, axes and bulldozers as the red tiger of the forests once more devoured Oregon's natural wealth...
Week's end came and still no rain fell on northwest Oregon (where annual precipitation is normally 43.17 in.). Fitful breezes made the flames doubly capricious and dangerous. Roads were closed, armies of volunteers set backfires to head off the destroyer. In Washington, the red tiger rambled from the rough hills 45 miles north of Spokane on to the east and south, eating deeply into resort towns in the Liberty Lakes country, finally jumping the border into Idaho, where 1,500 men fought the flames at Spirit Lake. With more than 200,000 acres burned & burning, the fire strode...
What happened to the Army of the Po? Fortnight ago this superbly mechanized force of eleven divisions began its maneuvers by dashing from the Venetian plains across northern Italy to resist an attack of imaginary Red invaders theoretically pouring through passes in the Alps (TIME, Aug. 14). But after repairing bridges theoretically destroyed by Red bombs, plunging 230 real miles in 60 hours, the Army of the Po unexpectedly halted, went home two days ahead of schedule. Explanations...
...most gifted strategist (who was surprisingly absent from the maneuvers), had won another victory. The tough-minded Marshal, who salvaged the Ethiopian campaign after it had bogged down, and who talks back to Il Duce, was reported to think no more of Blitzkrieg than of many another red-hot Fascist notion...
Unable to pull his top-heavy Fair out of the red this year, Grover Whalen is faced with the problem of running it a second year. But there he will tangle with the League of Nations. In 1928, under the League's friendly wing, 22 foreign nations formed the Bureau of International Exhibitions. Under its rule signatories cannot participate in any fair longer than six months. That would mean curtains for next year's World of Tomorrow, because, if the nations which erected buildings tear them down, there will be ugly gaps in the Fair's landscape...