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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington's Washington-Hoover Airport, which the Airline Pilots' Association this summer declared unsafe. In his veto message the President suggested that instead of trying to improve an inadequate field, a new airport be developed at Gravelly Point, "Within ten minutes of the centre of Washington . . . for use in all good weather. . . ." Since low-lying Gravelly Point has many river fogs, he also recommended a second field farther away for use when flying conditions were unfavorable...
Early last week it seemed that the Caudillo Franco had almost earned his title of Victor. Santander had fallen. Free for use on other fronts were 50,000 troops. Next objective in the northwest was Gijon, and as Rightists pushed westward along the Bay of Biscay they claimed Asturian troops were in full flight before them, 5,000 surrendering at the port town of Lanes. The Vatican had recognized the Rightist State. Off the tables of Marshal Pietro Badoglio in Rome was generally expected a new plan of attack by which Madrid would be captured before cold weather...
...suave diplomat, Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, took the gloves off and bluntly explained that the real purpose of Japan's expeditionary force is not to conquer China, but to kick out Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In words chosen with far less tact than his sovereign was about to use to explain the Sino-Japanese War, Mr. Hirota observed: "We are fighting anti-Japanese movements in China. These exist largely in the Chinese Army, and General Chiang Kai-shek is their spearhead. The leaders of present-day China have long fostered anti-Japanism as a tool for political purposes...
...save time and space 1,400 Associated Press newspapers use a logotype, AP, to label AP stories. For nearly 40 years AP has been trying to make its symbol mean as much on newsstories as "sterling" means on silver. Unnoticed though it is by hurried readers, the little logotype can even by its absence make news...
...reached the radio first and as recorded by Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra was No. 1 last week on Victor s best-selling list. The David-Redmond song played by Hod Williams' Orchestra, was 'fourth on the Bluebird record list. Neither publisher protested the other's use of the title. Both tunes are good, and pluggers for both firms last week were making it hard for orchestra leaders to make up their minds. The David-Redmond song is the more imaginative of the two. Whereas its rival simply states, "Everybody s learning...