Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan, is slight. In fact, the absence of any definite link between President Vargas and the Integralista, or Brazilian Fascist Party, and the very fact that news dispatches declaring the new regime to be totalitarian are not censored, reenforce the impression that the Fascist scare is simply a clever smoke screen used to becloud the ruling party's real objective--continuation in office...
...your write-up of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. (TIME, Oct. 11), it is said that " 'Salt' . . . makes no table salt" (p. 72). On my dining-room table is a bottle of indubitable, delicious, and much used salt, labelled "Old Hickory Smoked Salt-Manufactured by Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co.-Pure table salt smoked with genuine Hickory wood smoke." What's the answer? CHRISTOPHER L. WARD...
...rural battle line bent back, Chinese General Sun Yuan-liang, seeing it had become impossible to hold Chapei, ordered what remained of this heavily bombed and shelled Chinese shambles to be set afire. Hurling sulphur and other incendiary materials, Chinese firebugs heroically raised an immense pall of smoke over Chapei beneath which the Chinese defenders executed in the night what foreign military experts in Shanghai called one of the most orderly and efficient retreats ever made in Oriental warfare. Stimulating to morale throughout China was the staying behind in a Chapei warehouse of 500 Chinese troops of "Chiang...
...Chinese had retreated to a new line, strongly entrenched and fortified regardless of cost, and although the Japanese this week made a short advance west of Shanghai, crossing Soochow Creek under a smoke screen and strongly resisted by the Chinese, all indications favored weeks more of Shanghai warfare in such close quarters that every day Japan risked an incident which would plunge her into fighting with one or another Great Power. It was this which made the 45 sq. mi. taken at Shanghai last week more desperately important than 1,980 sq. mi. quietly taken by Japanese forces pressing down...
This all comes under the heading of pure routine. Human interest seekers may take pleasure in further items in the flyer. The Cadets may smoke on their trains and after luncheon indoors only...