Word: inspection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible an Italian royal decree was issued which provided special armaments appropriations of $65,000,000, a 20% increase over the regular military expenses already appropriated. Italy's Chief of Staff and Under Secretary for War, General Alberto Pariani. who has recently visited Berlin, was pointedly dispatched to inspect the defenses on the island of Sardinia, eight miles south of Corsica...
Great Lady (produced by Dwight Deere Wiman & J. H. Del Bondio). Only the most rabid Manhattan sightseers have toiled uptown to inspect the handsome, aged Jumel Mansion. Great Lady is a "biography with music'' of the mansion's former chatelaine, high-stepping Madame Eliza Jumel. From being put in the stocks for misbehaving in Providence, R. I., Eliza went on to dally with a French cavalier, marry a French businessman, almost whisk Napoleon to the U. S. after Waterloo, curtsy before Louis XVIII of France and make a second marriage, late in life, with Aaron Burr...
...will take place Friday night amid a nautical setting. The "Princetonian" warns would-be crashers that two bouncers, dressed in the guise of ship's officers, "will be on deck to greet all passengers coming aboard. While one salt will be stationed at the head of the gangplank to inspect the passports of the embarking prom-goers, his cohort will haunt the bowels of the vessel to thwart the advent of stowaways. Anyone apprehended without proper credentials will promptly be compelled to walk the plank, with an additional charge of twelve dollars." . . . Washington U's Varsity Ball committee last week...
Members of the Harvard Engineering Society descended 40 feet underground yesterday to inspect the excavations for the new Huntington Avenue subway extension and watch the muckers
...Japanese have tried various unsuccessful methods to stamp out destruction of their rail lines. Chinese farmers were forced to inspect the tracks and report loose or missing rails-which they did, but often only after helping the guerrillas tear up and hide the rails. A $5 reward was offered by the Japanese for returned rails-those Chinese who took advantage of the deal were executed when they returned home. Japanese troops tried burning the nearest Chinese village when the rails were cut. Chinese destruction only increased...