Word: troop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could not have bread they might have to eat cake and Italians may have to wear natural silk, of which Italy produces plenty, instead of cotton, of which we produce little or none. Having electrified many of our railways, the coal saved is now going into the bunkers of troop ships. We are pinched today. But it is a choice of evils. We must overflow elsewhere or blow up in Europe. We can perhaps hold out longer than other peoples who have little to go on because, although the Almighty gave Italy little, He provided plenty of sunshine...
...naive delight over an Occidental War was perfectly natural. The World War was, to Japan alone among major belligerents, just one huge slice of cake. On the fighting side, Japan had scant trouble taking Germany's Chinese port of Kiao-chiao and Pacific islands, supplied some destroyers for troop convoys in the Mediterranean. Japan's total War dead: 300 men, mostly from illness. In money, Japan lent her Allies only 618,000.000 yen ($308,000.000). Britain repaid her share of this in 1919 to Japan out of monies borrowed from the U. S. The rest has since been...
Abruptly taken off the sailing schedule last April, the angular old four-stacker has since been held at Southampton in hopes that Italy would buy her for a troop ship. Last week Italy did buy the Hamburg-American Resolute, showed no interest in the Olympic. Regretfully, Cunard White Star officials invited prospective buyers of her fittings, put her on the scrapping list...
...last, Baron Aloisi was persuaded to telephone this to Premier Mussolini who had spent most of the week at the wheel of his racing car dashing from one troop ship on the point of sailing to the next. "Crush all before you!" he had been telling battalion after battalion of cheering troops. "The hour of destiny for Italy has struck...
...Chilean, five Peruvian, one Danish West Indian. The jamboree was going to be the biggest & best ever held in the U. S. Each & every U. S. Boy Scout who expected to attend had contributed $25 toward building the Washington cantonment which comprised 1,440 tents, great central kitchens, troop kitchens, ice boxes, storehouses, shower rooms, toilets-every conceivable arrangement for the comfort, pleasure and safety of the jamboreeing Boy Scouts...