Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Present production costs in the Grozny oil fields are lower than before the War, while in the Baku fields these costs are about equal to those of 1913. The output of gasoline from crude oil has been increased from the pre-War figure of 0.4% to over 0.7%. Deterding also mentions the Soviet coal industry. It will be interesting to learn that coal production for the year just ended was 39% higher than the figure given by Deterding...
...admitted, however, that he had suggested at the time the Locarno compacts were signed (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925, et seq.) that the inscription be modified, suggesting "DESTROYED BY WAR; RESTORED BY AMERICAN LOVE." His reasons for this suggestion were that the inscription should emphasize "not past differences between these peoples but their present agreements...
...Warren's order for the immediate resumption of work goes in the teeth of German protests against monuments of this type. Only recently the Berlin Government made unofficial representations against a War memorial at Dinant, Belgium, depicting a German soldier holding above his head a baby speared on a bayonet. Nevertheless, Mr. Warren said that his action in regard to the Louvain Library reflected the sentiments of most of the population of Louvain...
Quiescent now for several moons, the Chinese civil war broke out suddenly last week in all its Chinese fury and the results were buried in customary Chinese contradictions...
...troops beseiged the city of Paotingfu. Predictions were that Peking was due for an early fall, but successful counter-attacks by Chang's army put the situation in doubt, although it was certain that Peking was threatened by the most powerful military alignment since the Chinese civil war broke out and that the troops in this alignment were closer to the Chinese capital than ever before...