Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Castellon's harbor, into which munitions and food could be brought by Rightist ships to Rightist troops, at present forced to bring supplies hundreds of miles overland. Next Rightist goal will be Valencia, 40 miles to the south, for more than a year the capital of Leftist Spain, third largest city of the country. Advance down this rugged coast line will, however, present difficulties...
...Crimea, the Soviet Government has installed a seismograph station with sensitive instruments capable of recording the slightest tremors of the earth. Recently, the savants in charge have been nonplussed by a queer epidemic of quakes. One which agitated the instruments appeared to be in Angora, another in Asia, a third on the Adriatic coast. An extremely violent series of jiggles made the seismologists believe that a quake was occurring right there in Yalta. Oddly enough, however, no other station was obtaining records of these disturbances...
...Third and soggiest lump was the fact that Austria's imports have exceeded her exports. During the first four months of 1938, Austria's adverse balance was $7,600,000, an almost insurmountable addition to Germany's own $28,400,000 adverse balance for the same period. According to League figures, Germany's net imports of raw and semi-raw materials totaled 1,731,000 metric tons (a metric ton is 2,204.6 pounds) in 1936; Austria's 1,867.000. In foodstuffs and livestock for the same year, Germany imported 2,168,000 metric tons...
...Surgeon General Thomas Parran saying: "The underprivileged third of our population, when seriously ill, needs help from tax funds. The health of the people is quite properly the concern of Government...
...show that season. When the second opened last year with 526 pictures and statues, critics were agreeably surprised, found the general level of painting higher, a few pieces outstanding, their subjects of coast-to-coast diversity. Last week, in the spacious galleries of the Fine Arts Society, the third National Exhibition turned out to be the best...