Word: area
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus with great circumspection the Dictator told the people what part of Poland Russia intended to get-i.e., the Polish Ukraine, the northeast area south of Lithuania. Hurriedly Russia called up 4,000,000 troops. Hurriedly Russia called an armistice in the Russo-Japanese War (see p. 24). Then suddenly, as the Germans struck southward toward Polish oil fields, cutting off Polish retreat to Rumania, getting within 80 miles of the Russian frontier, Russian troops crossed the Polish border on a 500-mi. front...
...tunnel and could mount to their hidden outside fighting positions through a maze of upward warrens. No sooner had the Americans seized one mouth of the tunnel than the Germans poured out of their surface positions and riddled them from the rear. The Americans finally cleared the area but not before the 107th Infantry had lost 337 men killed and 658 wounded, the heaviest loss on a single day for any U. S. regiment...
...Railroads, which in recent years have been employing fewer men than even in 1931, began to show signs of rehiring. Pennsylvania put 1,560 to work, Louisville & Nashville 650, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 200. In the Pittsburgh area alone, 1,800 furloughed employes were recalled to handle steel and coal shipments. B. & 0. recalled 800 men for repairing and building cars & locomotives. Pennsylvania estimated that it would require 4,000 more men to repair freight cars, 2,000,000 man-hours of work on passenger cars, locomotives and new freight cars...
Smith, Vassar, and more recently, creative Bennington draw their quota of Yardlings who venture outside the area of the Boston Elevated Railroad system...
...system of responsibility: no censor touched their copy, but if they sent dispatches which the Ministry for Propaganda considered false or damaging they could be denied access to news sources or expelled from the country. The German Army was conducting a few picked reporters on tours of the war area in Poland. Consequently most of the authentic war news that reached the U. S. came from Berlin and told of German victories...