Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today Leverett and Kirkland square off in a clash which should go a long way toward determining the 1937 champion. The other bout finds Dunster facing Dudley in a collar battle...
Among the many things President Roosevelt did last week to indicate his honorable intentions toward a balanced budget (see p. 17), was to cast up an estimate of where he stood today. It was the President's third formal statement on the current budget, and the second revision since last January when he spoke hopefully of a "layman's balance" for fiscal 1938. By April that hope had faded to an estimated net deficit of $418,000,000, largely because of disappointing tax receipts. Last week the President had to hike his net deficit estimate once more...
...morning last week Rightist commanders of troops slogging over mountain trails toward Gijón, tuned in the Gijón radio station. Over came a strange excited voice...
...bombs and shellfire, most of all it meant food. Even before the fall of Bilbao, Generalissimo Franco discovered that food, of which his part of Spain has plenty, was the best Rightist propaganda he could use. So last week trucks loaded with bread, sausages, corn and rice started rolling toward Gijón from Vitoria and Burgos even before the Rightist requetés entered the town. An official note of surrender was sent to Salamanca signed by Colonel Franco (no relation), Gijón's Leftist commandant of artillery...
...serious Rightist offensive on the Aragon front must drive toward either Valencia or Barcelona; the latter would be far the richer prize. Barcelona's defenses are strong. They will be stronger with the Government directly behind them, particularly since the fall of Gijón and Santander was largely due to what correspondents in Spain like to call the "fifth column": sympathizers inside a besieged town or district who rise to arms as (presumably) "four" surrounding columns advance...