Word: shell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day 20 miles off the China coast the U. S. liner President Hoover, with Dollar signs as big as billboards on her funnels, plowed towards Shanghai with 263 U. S. refugees aboard. Out of the sky three small bombs came crashing down on the ship, shell-shocking three passengers, wounding six of the crew, killing one, damaging hull and deck. Shanghai's Mayor 0. K. Yui promptly admitted Chinese responsibility, promised fullest redress: four bombers had mistaken the liner for a Japanese troopship. Washington immediately cabled Ambassador Johnson to make a vehement protest...
...least half of Japan's navy was in it. Flagship of the combined fleet was the 37-year-old British-built Idumo with lynx-eyed Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa in command. The Idumo was moored opposite Shanghai's International Settlement, and ten days of bombing, shelling and one attempted torpedoing had so far damaged her but slightly. Sixteen miles downstream, where the Whangpoo River joins the yellow muddy estuary of the Yangtze lay the mass of the Japanese fleet, over 50 warships, including four battleships, six battle cruisers, 38 destroyers and one of Japan's four aircraft...
Death of Freddie John. For a day or so a crisis that might have brought on U. S. and British intervention threatened aboard the U. S. S. Augusta, flagship of Admiral Harry Yarnell of the Asiatic Fleet. While bombs and high explosive shells rained down on the native city, while Chinese and Japanese soldiers and civilians died like flies in the oily glare of burning buildings ashore, a group of 40 seamen off duty assembled on the well-deck of the Augusta to see a movie. From somewhere a single 36 mm. pompom shell weighing about a pound dropped...
...reserves and surpluses of the companies totaled more than $21,000,000. "The principal foreign petroleum companies form great American and British trusts and their interests have often been far from and even on occasions opposed to Mexican national interests," the report concluded, adding the specific charge that Shell subsidiary, Aguila, has "monopolistic tendencies...
...Boston Symphony drove over to Tanglewood, noted with approval that a tan tent, 280 ft. by 120 ft. and 60 ft. high at its peak, had been raised on the property. Dr. Koussevitzky entered the tent, commanded that two sticks be clicked together before the big plywood orchestra shell. Listening judiciously from the rear of the tent, Conductor Koussevitzky heard the distinct click, beamed, pronounced: "Fine! Fine! Very good!'' Next evening as the sun dropped behind the green hills, Conductor Koussevitzky stood on the podium in un-summery white tie and tail coat, tapped his baton, raised...