Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zero. All North China was colder last week than in any winter since 1893. Thermometers said 35°F. below zero in Harbin, Manchuria. Ill-clad, scant-nourished Chinafolk died by hundreds in cities, by dozens in towns...
Chang. Back to Mukden, his capital city in sub-zero Manchuria, the young War Lord Chang Hsueh-liang did not go last week. He has been at Nanking in central China, conferring with another "little general," President Chiang Kaishek...
Author Busch understands understatement. He describes the vagrants at Mr. Zero's Manhattan canteen: "They could have their bowls filled as often as they liked. They did not spill anything. They ate intensely and without haste. They did not look at each other...
Greater interest than has been felt in years centred on the government declaration to be read to the Lords and Commons by the King-Emperor in his "Speech from the Throne"-actually written last week by Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden in council. As though for a zero hour, the Empire braced itself for the gorgeous moment next week when King George V and Queen Mary would sally from the robing room of the House of Lords (see cover), when His Majesty would signalize the momentous rebirth of the Mother of Parliaments by the gracious words, "My Lords, pray be seated...
...Lieut. Woodring, was 26-year-old Lieut. William W. Caldwell. Over the Rockies flew the couriers, into a Wyoming blizzard. Lieut. Woodring emerged, after two forced landings. Not until landing in Cleveland next day did he learn that his escort lay dead 70 mi. west of Cheyenne. In the "zero-zero" (no ceiling, no visibility) weather, Lieut. Caldwell had crashed into a fence post trying to land. With bad weather still ahead of him over the Alleghenies, Lieut. Woodring prudently transferred to a consolidated Fleetster piloted by a brother officer, landed at Mitchel Field, N. Y. two nights before...