Word: territoryes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1626, Manhattan, which is now worth roughly $8,000,000,000 in real estate, was purchased from the Indians for $24 worth of beads and trinkets. In 1803, France's Louisiana Territory (827,987 sq. mi.) cost a monstrous $15,000,000. Last week the U. S. Supreme...
The Japanese aim is to clear the Tient-sin-Pukow Railway so the Japanese puppets of Peiping can be united with the equally submissive Nanking puppets. At one point north of Suchow the Japanese advance guard was stalled 15 miles from the Lunghai Railway. At another point south of Suchow...
The Rightist President announced that he and his followers have set out on a "quest for social justice." He postulated that "Liberal regimes have always failed in Spain" and that "agents of international Communism as well as Democracy" have helped Leftist Spain. In its territory, charged the Generalissimo, 400,000...
In the East, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's forces, having reached the Mediterranean, widened the breach between the two parts of Leftist territory from 25 to 50 miles last week. To bolster the morale of his troops against advancing Rightists, General José Miaja, dictator of Southern Leftist Spain, confirmed...
But if Author Hanson had few adventures of his own, he found plenty second hand. An insatiable inquirer and a lively storyteller, he tells his best story about Gomez' notorious killer Funes, governor of the Amazonas territory, who exterminated half the native population, still held the other half'...