Word: salvos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton men rioted three days because chapel prayers were too long, got them cut by one-third. Last week the Daily Princetonian reported that Princeton men now rudely talk, read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe and salvo during Sunday services in their new $2,000,000 chapel. Excitedly launched was a campaign against "forced, hypocritical and disinterested'' chapel attendance, compulsory every other Sunday...
...called "Austrian Legion" of Nazis who have escaped from Austria but intend to dash back for a coup at the first favorable moment. For days von Papen was reported bickering with Hitler over the Legion. Then the big guns of the German Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment fired a salvo of announcements that the Austrian Legion had been dissolved, added touching details of how its former members were hungrily looking for work...
...France's turn next. By denouncing commercial treaties between France and Britain signed in 1882 and 1926 she fired a mighty salvo which, however, will not hit its target until three months hence. Long have these particular treaties been under attack by French shipping interests, as they gave Britain marked advantages in carrying freight between France and her colonies...
...railroads ordered 2.303 passenger cars, last year six. But since the first of 1934, New York, Chicago & St. Louis has ordered as many steam locomotives (20) as all railroads ordered in the last two years. Last week Chesapeake & Ohio fired at the car-builders in one $17,000,000 salvo orders for 7,808 freight cars-more than four times as many as were ordered all last year. Erie boomed in with orders for 3,725, Nickel Plate for 1,200. Passenger car orders so far this year amount to 25 times last year's total...
With a last ripple of rifle fire, a last salvo of cannon and a mighty mingling of Indian war whoops and LaL., cheers, the soldiers of Bolivia and Paraguay stopped fighting in the swampy jungles of the Gran Chaco last week. Suddenly the chatter of tropical birds again seemed loud. Just before the eleven-day "Christmas Truce" was arranged by League of Nations statesmen (see p. 11 )-last year's Chaco "Christmas Truce" was arranged by Pope Pius XI-battling Paraguay pressed her recent supreme offensive to capture Bolivia's Fort Munoz. Whether Munoz. was captured just before...