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...David's Eve the students requested that Carnarvon Castle fly not the British Union Jack but the Welsh Red Dragon on St. David's Day.* But at daybreak, the Union Jack was smartly hoisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jack & the Dragon | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

Thus last week three of Japan's 20 "crawling dragons," tanks of formidable power, were wrecked as they advanced, merely by treading upon Chinese land mines. That way of crippling a "crawling dragon" the Chinese may have thought up themselves, or they may have been told by the "Three Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Japan Shanghaied | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...heavily dependent on Japan's various supernationalistic secret societies. It did not, take the police long to discover that Mr. Inouye's pale little assassin was a member of a society known as the Seisanto which in turn is an offshoot of the formidable Kosuikai or Black Dragon Society, closely allied to the War Party of Premier Inukai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Black Dragon | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...dragon will crawl across future maps of Missouri. Its head will be at Bagnell, in the central part of the State. Its tail and claws will twist 129 mi. westward. It will be labelled Lake of the Ozarks, largest artificial lake in the world, created by a dam across the Osage River built by Stone & Webster for Union Electric Light & Power Co. (North American subsidiary). St. Louisans and Kansas Citizens will have summer shacks and duck shooting lodges along its 1,300 mi. of shore line. St. Louisans, who will consume a large part of the dam's annual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Lake of the Ozarks | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

Chamberlin v. Dragon, Flying passengers over Brooklyn, Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin sighted a monster yellow-&-black dragon bobbing crazily about in the sky-one of the helium-filled balloons released from the annual Thanksgiving Day parade of R. H. Macy & Co. Pilot Chamberlin dived at the dragon, sheared off its head with his wingtip, carried it back to the field on his wing. Next day he received from Macy's one of the $25 rewards offered for the recovery of each monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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