Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wild West. The coastal Chinese- China has always been ruled from her coastal provinces-know more about Western China than George Washington knew about the Wild West-but not much more. In effect, Chinese officials, students and soldiers began a covered wagon trek to their Wild West after it appeared that Japanese troops could not be defeated in the coastal provinces or even at Hankow by those troops which it seemed judicious to use, and perhaps not by any Chinese troops...
Chinese have transferred to cities in their Wild West over 60% of the industrial machinery of Hankow and much besides from other cities, including the equipment of several Chinese arsenals. To industrialize Western China now is a job like that on which Russians have been working for 20 years in Siberia...
...Japan is directly dependent: 1) upon how much finished war material the Soviet Union is willing and able to ship over remaining inland routes, as the Japanese have already cut the best; 2) on Chinese ability to equip themselves with the products of new arsenals set up in the Wild West...
...shortcomings of Men With Wings are not due to Director William Augustus ("Wild Bill") Wellman's lack of qualifications for his job. A Lafayette Flying Corps pilot during the War, he launched aviation as a major cinema subject with Wings in 1927, thereafter rated as one of the industry's top specialists in aviation epics. More lately his forte has been screwball comedies (Nothing Sacred). To Wellman these apparently dissimilar types seem closely connected. The extraordinary conduct of Pat Falconer in Men With Wings illustrates his belief that Wartime fliers experienced such intense emotional turmoil that none...
...Chasing wild geese is so unrewarding it has become a proverb. Ornithologists have long gritted their teeth over the mystery of where the Blue Geese (Chen caerulescens) go in spring. From their winter quarters in the secluded swamp-lands of lower Louisiana the geese fly north so far and fast they literally disappear into the blue. But in 1929 a Canadian naturalist and explorer named Dr. Joseph Dewey Soper at last found a happy ending to his wild-goose chase. He traced the geese into the remote fastness of Baffin Island, deep in the Canadian Northeast, discovered their nesting place...