Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe, crisscrossed north and south as well as east and west by sworling mountain ranges, the theatres of war are limited with almost mathematical precision. Every great plain and basin in western and central Europe has been soaked in blood, every pass and gap and gateway has been powdered by the hobnails of marching men. Possession of the mountain bastions frequently determines just whose plains and basins are the site of bloodletting...
...from Ulm, at Blenheim, the Duke of Marlborough won his "famous Victory" in 1704-the victory over the French that so nonplussed the grandfather of Little Peterkin in Robert Southey's poem. To prevent a new war from being carried into the South German Basin or to the western end of the Baltic Plain the Nazis have built the Siegfried-or Limes-line. At its vital segment (between the Lorraine Gateway and Luxemburg) where the French might penetrate into the German concentration areas on the Rhine, this "line" is not a mere chain of forts, but a network organized...
...Snarled Nevada's irate Senator Key Pittman: Western lands "are rapidly becoming a barony of the dictator at the head of the Department of Interior...
...toward parched Humboldt River Canyon, some 250 miles east of Reno, one night last week rolled the super-streamliner City of San Francisco. With her 17 sleek, buff cars, well-stocked bars, roomy lounges, the $2,000,000 train (owned jointly by Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago & North Western) was the nearest thing to a night club on wheels in U. S. transport. It was 10:30 p. m. Some of the 149 passengers were abed in pastel-shaded roomettes, but the club car was still comfortably full...
...Appointed recently as trustee for sick 8,391-mile Chicago & North Western Railway was Lawyer Charles M. Thomson. As trustee for 927-mile Chicago & Eastern Illinois he had led the smaller road a long way toward financial convalescence. To C. & N. W. as President and operating head also went C. & E. I.'s weatherbeaten Executive Vice-President Rowland L. Williams...