Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main battle of the war last week was still being fought northeast of Suchow, from 15 to 50 miles north of the eastern end of the Lunghai Railway. Into an area more than half the size of Long Island, General Li Tsung-jen, commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Area, had poured about 650,000 Chinese soldiers for what six months ago would have been a real anomaly-a Chinese offensive. Opposing them were 100,000 well-trained, well-armed Japanese troops...
...commissar, John Gates, is a little soft-spoken union organizer from New York. "The Americans in the brigade are about 75% to 80% Communists-a much higher percentage than in other brigades. In the British and Canadian battalions the percentage of Communists is much lower." U. S. volunteers are still carrying on in the Leftist medical service and U. S.-donated ambulances, bearing such inscriptions as To the Spanish Republic from the Workers of Barre and Montpelier, Vermont, are still chugging about behind the lines...
...down streets of industrial Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, were face-lifted with banners & bunting last week as their Majesties, King George VI and his Scottish Queen, Elizabeth, arrived to open officially Glasgow's $50,000,000 Empire Exhibition. Glasgow citizens, 50,000 of whom are still unemployed despite the Clydebank's shipbuilding and rearmament boom, lined the streets and cheered lustily as the royal couple, riding in an open landau drawn by spanking Windsor greys, jogged out to the exhibition site, wooded Bellahouston Park. There in the neighboring Ibrox soccer stadium before 60,000 cheering Scots...
...they believed there had never been such a submarine display as Italy offered last week. One moment the sea was alive with 85 submarines advancing in nine columns toward the Conte di Cavour. Suddenly all dived, vanishing completely in 75 seconds, then eight minutes later all upped into sight still in perfect formation, and all firing their deck guns at a total of 1,000 shots per minute-pandemonium...
Last week, dramatically affirming that the Plan still "represents my highest ideals," Strongman Batista suddenly announced that further legislation on it would be "suspended" until after the Presidential elections early next year. Reason for this unexpected move: squat, peasant-born Batista.has engineered the seating of five men in the Presidential chair and now hankers to fill the position himself. The Plan, criticized by a good many Cubans as an attempt to regiment all phases of their national life, is regarded by Boss Batista as too much of a controversial issue to push at the time of an election...