Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a vast difference in the conduct of international conferences that are determined on action and the usual gingerly debates of the League of Nations. Sea-potent Britain was obviously going to call this Conference's tunes and she had sent to Geneva her hot-tempered, obstinate Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden. The British plan he brought had already been approved by France, and in short order this week the other conferees sat down and signed it. It provided that "neutral shipping lanes," in general synonymous with the present Mediterranean shipping lanes, be established and patrolled...
...vast astonishment of the Tokyo press corps last week, that usually 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...
Three Milleniums. Every few centuries since long before Christ, history has repeated itself in China. A warlike people, coming usually from the north, covets the vast fertile plains lying north and south of the peninsula of Shantung (see map, p. 18). Advancing step by step in a few years or a few generations, they seize the ground they covet. Such was evidently the modest plan of the Japanese who know their history when, advancing from Manchukuo, they set out in July to take possession of the northern part of Hopei Province. Their plans for an inexpensive...
Spurred by Curtiss-Wright's success, Hamilton Standard last week revealed that it too has a full-feathering prop. Worked by hydraulic pressure, the Hamilton blade has been ordered in small quantities by United and American Airlines for twin-motored use, by Pan American for its vast four-motored Boeing Clippers now abuilding in Seattle...
This is a small tributary indeed to the vast flow from U. S. oil fields, which last week for the 17th time since January 1 broke all records with an average production of 3,651,000 barrels per day. But for Illinois it is a revival of hopes forgotten during the quarter-century when the State's oil production dwindled from a peak of 33,000,000 barrels in 1910 to a scant 4,000,000 last year in the old pumping grounds near the Indiana border. Most active of the new fields is the Patoka pool south...