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...drives, jurisdictional strikes set off sparks. Most inflammable spot this week was at Boeing Aircraft Co., in Seattle, Wash. There an A.F. of L. union, scabby with Communism, had expelled a leftist group, who resentfully switched their affiliations to C.I.O. Whether C.I.O. would take them in, make them the spearhead of a drive on Boeing, remained to be seen. Conservative West Coast C.I.O. leaders were against the idea, radical C.I.O.ers were...
...century, the U.S. has supplied two-thirds of the Protestant missionaries, and it now provides over half the overseas financial support for Catholic and Protestant missions alike. These Americans have been the spearhead of Chinese social change. They were the first to penetrate the interior, taking Western ideas, clothes, techniques, medicines, preparing desires and attitudes that opened the way for Western commerce. In every Chinese change of the past generation-with the exception of the 1926-27 revolution-the share of the missionaries has been large. They led the movements for famine relief and Western agricultural methods...
...Germans withdrew, at least temporarily. One British advance patrol behind the German spearhead caught a Nazi infantry unit in busses, and annihilated...
With the fall of Cheren, the British hoped for no further major battle in Eritrea. They pressed on through the hills at once toward the capital, Asmara, as fast as sappers ahead of the armored-car spearhead could clear away land mines and landslides left by the Italians. Ahead of the sappers the R.A.F. continued its bombardment, destroying trucks and twisting bridges. Beyond Asmara lies Massaua, Eritrea's only good port, which the Royal Navy had tightly corked and hoped soon to possess...
...Spearhead of the Eliot attack was gridman Loren MacKinney, who placed in six of the eleven events, Langdon Burwell, his teammate, and captain of the cross country team, brought home the bacon for Eliot in both the 600 and 1000 yard runs...