Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last month, curious Chicagoans saw this dream monster in broad daylight. Fathered by the Armour Institute of Technology, of which Dr. Poulter is a scientific director, whelped by the Pullman works and christened Penguin I, it bumbled through the streets on a test run, got stuck under a viaduct. Extricated, it waddled off two days later for Boston at a speed of 10 m.p.h., sometimes less, paused to nose a truck in Columbia City, Ind., slithered off the highway into Mrs. Cleo Watkin's cow pasture near Gomer, Ohio, and came to rest with its nose in a drainage...
Continued quiet in the ticklish Forbach salient, overlooking the ghost industrial city of Saarbrücken, led observers to guess that the German onslaught there last month, which for a time had the French defenders entirely cut off from support and supplies (TIME, Nov. 13), was a typical German "information" offensive, designed to find out what the French command will do in given circumstances rather than to take an objective now. Before the great Ludendorff push of 1918, the Germans conducted innumerable attacks of inquiry, compiled a thorough textbook on the behavior of various generals commanding various parts...
Reilly. Meanwhile, the 220,000 Dutchmen in the East Indies live the life of Reilly. No white man is so poor he cannot afford at least two servants at salaries ranging around $8 a month, and the usual staff of a well-to-do household numbers six or seven. No white woman need lift her little finger around the house. U. S. films now arrive in Java, Sumatra and Borneo with little delay, and few are the Dutch Colonials who do not own a U. S.-made car. Tinned foods from home are always available, but the most famous East...
From Peking (Japanese) and Hong Kong (neutral) came reports that last month Communist Generalissimo Mao Tse-tung charged the central authorities with failing to set up democratic government in China, with having arrested a Communist officer without provocation, with having actually fought a three-day battle against the Communists when the Japanese were less than 100 miles away...
...uneasy fieldfellow with the Central Armies. Communists scorn the elegant-mannered, fancy-uniformed officers of Whampoa Military Academy (founded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek); the Government resents the exaggerated publicity the simple-living, peasant-loving, estate-looting Communist guerrillas have had. Government soldiers get $7.50 to $9 (Chinese) per month; Communist soldiers get $1. The Government charges that the Communists promised to limit their Army to some 45,000 men, but have recruited over 100,000. Communists charge that the Government promised a monthly subsidy of $45,000, has been granting only $30,000. Central Armies have uniform arms; Communists...