Word: soon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basic consideration.* Six predictably fair weeks of Polish autumn lay ahead for action on the fat Polish plains. Then will come rains which the Poles hope will bog down the German juggernaut on the purposely unpaved roads leading in from the borders. In the mountain passes on the South soon will come General Snow to aid the defenders...
...heard in Western Europe on Black Sunday, but soon after midnight, The Netherlands listened to wave after wave of thrumming, high-flying airplanes speeding southeast-by-east along the coast. (The neutral Netherlands next day duly "protested.") Monday brought word that some of these planes had "bombarded" Germany with 6,000,000 leaflets in German, telling A. Hitler's people...
...naval bases at Cuxhaven, Wilhelmshaven and Brunsb?is some 500 miles. Both sides presently acknowledged that British bombers had gone to work on Germany's fleet at these ports, Britain claiming damaging hits on at least two battleships, Germany claiming to have shot down five out of twelve bombers. Soon to be settled, apparently, was the question of supremacy between airplanes and battleships. The answer has vital bearing on the Mediterranean question mark...
...guns began to go off, monarchs and ministers, dictators and presidents, said what they had to say. Soon the tumult of war would be too loud to let the world hear their voices. The headlines of papers blurred and ran together-Hitler said. . . . Daladier said. . . . Chamberlain told the House of Commons. . . . Mackenzie King announced-then changed overnight. The great names and grave words disappeared. The bombing of ships and cities, clashes on the Western Front, maneuvers on the plains of Poland, overflowed in the news...
...comes to all U. S. Steel Corp. employes at three score and ten, retirement came last week to hard-boiled round-faced Thomas Moses, vice president in charge of raw materials. At eleven Welsh-blooded Tom Moses began his career in an Indiana mine, soon had a union card. By the time he was 40, he had changed to the management side of the tracks, and in 1933 as president of U. S. Steel's subsidiary, H. C. Frick Coke Co., carried the ball for Steel in its first New Deal struggle with labor. His successor: tall, greying Yaleman...