Word: steams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine mired deep in China, the Kwantung Army, unless it wanted to commit harakiri, would be unwise to call a showdown with the Soviet Union. That this summer's clash was just another in the long series of Manchukuoan frontier incidents in which the Kwantung Army works off steam was indicated by a Japanese Army spokesman. He said that Japan had "no intention of expanding the border clashes into a real war so long as the Russians refrain from attacking strategic points...
...hrer Adolf Hitler is no man to take unnecessary risks. If the German Navy were to steam into Danzig Harbor and forcefully take over the Free City, Britain's Peace Front might well become a War Front. A neater, less dangerous solution would be for the Danzig Senate simply to declare the City annexed to Germany. This would place Poland in the bad strategic position of having to take the initiative and becoming the technical aggressor. If Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain should get fainthearted about the Polish Guarantee, as the Nazis confidently expect, he would have a hole, albeit...
...with even one lone survivor of 1869 in line, but it was primarily the day for uniforms, bands, and hilarity. Following 1914, the class of '19, wearing red and white striped blazers, marched behind a four-horse tallyho, and '24, dressed as toreadors, had a steam calliope which played "Ferdinand the Bull...
...Captain Austin Eugene Lathrop, a building contractor turned shipmaster, sailed to Alaska from Puget Sound in the small steam schooner L. J. Perry. He sailed right into the Klondike gold rush. Instead of turning to pick & pan, however, Cap Lathrop stuck to his bridge and toted prospectors and their pokes. Nowadays, in rich Central Alaska, stout, furrowed, 73-year-old Cap Lathrop is the head man. He owns a big salmon cannery, a bank, a coal mine, an airplane hangar, three cinemas, two newspapers, a general store, apartment houses, and is a member of the Board of Regents of University...
...modernize the U. S. rolling power plant is 500 new engines a year; at this rate, barely a dent would be made in U. S. locomotive obsolescence. Assuming that Baldwin got what has been its normal 40% share of such a windfall, that its share was all for steam power (though it makes Diesels, too) at $150,000 an engine, its locomotive sales on New Deal account would be $30,000,000 a year...