Word: strip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When last September's hurricane devastated 50 miles of Fire Island, New York's Park Commissioner Robert Moses issued an ominous warning: unless the long strip of beach and sand dunes which now protects Long Island from the sea were turned over to him, the next big blow would destroy it (TIME, Oct. 17). The cost of making Mr. Moses' promised land of boulevard-parkway and State parks was $15,500,000 of which Suffolk County must pay a little over two-thirds...
...Spanish war front burst into sudden activity last week when a powerfully reinforced Rightist Army moved forward against the Leftist-held Ebro River salient. It was the eighth in a series of costly Rightist attempts to regain the narrow, mountainous strip of land west of the Ebro taken by the Leftists in late July. Long ago the salient ceased to have much strategic value. Committed to retaking it, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco sent general after general to drive the Leftists back across the river, is estimated to have spent the lives of 70,000 men there since early August...
Mars Attacks the World (Universal). Abbreviated version of last year's serial Flash Gordon, based on the comic strip and featuring Larry ("Buster") Crabbe, re-released to take advantage of the uproar about Actor Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast last fortnight...
...before the deadline, thousands of Jews were dragged out, and shipped off to the Polish border. Soon some 20,000 including children wrenched from schools and orphanages, were herded at the frontier. Thousands were forced over the German line. Many preferred to stay in the open one-mile strip between the frontiers but 12,000 made their way into Poland. The Polish Government, threatening retaliation, made representations to Berlin. When negotiations were arranged the deportations halted. Jews on the German side were returned to their homes. Those already in Poland will have to pay their own way back, Nazi officials...
...little Negro girl at Emergency Hospital last year, determined to try a new experiment in plastic surgery: a living graft from another person of the same blood group (TIME, Dec. 13). Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner, 16, offered to risk his skin. Dr. Moran slit a strip of skin 16 inches long, half-inch wide, from John's armpit to his hip. He rolled it lengthwise into a narrow tube, attached the upper end of the tube to Clara's body. He assumed that John's blood would nourish the tube until it became...