Word: valleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Despite the personal support (by telegram and telephone) of Franklin Roosevelt, Jim Farley, Harold Ickes, rejected a proposal to develop and distribute public power from mighty Shasta Dam in the Central Valley...
...Black Tom and Kingsland disasters (killing three men and a child) ; and 3) by continuously presenting perjured testimony, through its Foreign Office officials tried to hide the proof of its guilt. Therefore, said he, Germany must pay some $50,000,000 in accrued damages and interest (principally to Lehigh Valley Railroad, which owned Black Tom, Canadian Car & Foundry Co., which owned the Kingsland plant, and Bethlehem Steel Corp., maker of some of the sabotaged shells...
...willingly accepted Communist help during his great campaign from revolutionary Canton up to Shanghai and the rich Yangtze valley in 1927. Once his objectives were in sight the Generalissimo turned on the Communists and machine-gunned many of their Shanghai supporters...
Chiang nursed his hold over the Yangtze valley, but patriotic Chinese intellectuals distrusted him. His only "offensive" gestures were made against the Chinese "Reds" of the southeastern province of Kiangsi, inner lair of the famed and capable Chinese Soviet generals, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, whose "communism" amounts to little more than a Populistic desire to give land to the tax-gutted and landlord-ridden Chinese peasant. Counting on Chiang's willingness to let the great granary of North China go, the Japanese Minister of War, General Hajime Sugiyama gave his underlings the green light signal without first...
...Chinese tactic is the "scorched earth" policy, which prevents the Japanese from living off the country through which they advance. But in spite of scorched earth and burned buildings, the Japanese have seized the cities and important railroads of North China, and have pushed their lines up the Yangtze valley to Hankow. Japan's conquest at its furthest limits extends 1,000 miles from north to south, 1,000 miles from east to west...