Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presently twelve Japanese planes appeared over Nantao, a native quarter of Shanghai, hurled five bombs on Shanghai's South Station. Scores of natives, waiting docilely for a train to Hangchow, were caught unawares, blown to bits. The attacking airmen, obviously ordered to destroy the station, showed marksmanship almost as bad as that of the Chinese who bombed Shanghai the week before. Most of the bombs fell several blocks away on citizens jampacked in the section of Nantao containing the Bird Market, Willow Pattern Teahouse, other tourist haunts. At least 400 people, including 15 children under two years, were killed...
...Armed natives blamed Josiah Erickson of Swampscott, Mass., co-owner of Inagua's $500,000 salt factory, for the issuance of the order. They stormed the Erickson West Indies store, killed one employe, then roamed the island searching for other "Yankees." The enraged natives fired the store, radio station, salt buildings, the Commissioner's residence, the warehouse. Erickson, four other American residents, Commissioner Fields, eight Negroes grabbed rifles, tear-gas guns, cartridges, shot their way clear to the launch...
Memorial Hall. Fire Station--during the course of time it becomes apparent that the fire engines here keep pretty busy. Explanation lies in the fact that Harvard has the city of Cambridge's central fire station in its backyard, even as Harvard Square lios geographically in the center of the city...
...know all about things like this. It is not hurting the little chicken." Looking skeptically at the little chicken's nude fundament, Mr. Nelson was not so sure. He began to fight with Mr. Berger. At 42nd St. they were pried apart, taken to a nearby station house. Mr. Nelson promptly charged Mr. Berger with cruelty to animals. A policeman took the little chicken into the next room, knocked it on the head, stuffed it into an envelope, marked it "Exhibit A." Mr. Berger was detained pending the convening of night court. That night Mr. Nelson did not appear...
...brought them world-wide renown. From Los Angeles, Flyer James Mattern, who contemplates a transpolar flight to Moscow and who was once rescued in Siberia by Flyer Levanevsky, dashed non-stop to Fairbanks to return the favor in his new Lockheed Electra. Spurring the search, the Army Signal Corps station in Anchorage announced the receipt of a weak radio message from the grounded plane: "No bearings . . . having trouble with . . . wave band...