Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes to get together as new Locarno powers. In other words the Prime Minister, by his deft use of "Locarno," said clearly, although not wantonly calling a spade a spade, that the British Government are now with the German Government and the Italian Government in wishing to make a Western Pact of the type desired by Adolf Hitler, to the exclusion of the Soviet Union. Mr. Baldwin's unanswerable argument for this is that it would give a "Feeling of Security" and not even the logical French can prove or disprove a feeling. Over in Paris last week Premier...
This just about lined up western Europe tacitly against Spain's Reds, caused them this week to stake everything on desperate sorties from Madrid, frantic efforts to inflict on the White besiegers quick losses heavy enough to make Europe change its mind...
...progressed satisfactorily-Douglas is so overladen with other contracts that it may have to farm some out, the design turned out heavier than expected, and the six staffs of engineers have been unable to agree. Result: the DC-4 is still on paper. Meanwhile, Pan American and Transcontinental & Western Air have separately been investigating high-altitude flying. P.A.A. decided that 20,000 ft. was its optimum flight path; T.W.A. has plumped for an "overweather" route as high as 35,000 ft. Boeing also had been doing high-altitude research for the Army. This fact, plus the success of the four...
...Rocky Mountain Conference, also divided into two sections, last week's biggest games were Colorado, Eastern division leader all season, v. Colorado College. By winning twice, 39-to-31, 35-to-32, Colorado got a chance to clinch the division title against Denver this week. Western division winner is sure to be either Utah or Utah State which also play each other this week, in Salt Lake City...
Laid principally in Kentucky, Author Gordon's story alternates between plantation scenes and eyewitness accounts of the shifting Western battleground. The domestic pictures are much the more successful. The war episodes, in which real but rarely actualized figures like Grant, Forrest, Bragg, Longstreet and Polk appear, are marred by many a lampy smudge. The narrative opens after the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run to Northerners), once gets dangerously near Gone With the Wind territory, touches such historic happenings as the fall of Fort Donelson, Forrest's raid on Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga. Principal characters...