Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Rumania has to fight Russia, Hungary will not grab for Transylvania, nor Bulgaria for Dobruja. Hungary may even remain benevolently neutral and let Italian and Yugoslav war supplies cross into Rumania. Never were the Balkans more united than they seemed last week against Russia. A cordial exchange even took place between Bulgaria and her old enemy Turkey...
...heavy 2½-in. steel bars, to block a vessel's passage; 2) of chains and dangling wires, to foul submarine propellers; 3) mine nets in which a submarine, struggling to unmesh itself, makes its presence known ashore, where buttons are pushed to explode charges at the proper place along the barrier. Submarines encountering net types 1 and 2 are dispatched by depth charges from patrol ships or airplanes...
...Miler Glenn Cunningham: an indoor, handicap mile in which he conceded up to 40 yards to seven opponents; time 4:19.6; in Manhattan. Famed Miler Luigi Beccali refused his 15-yard handicap, started from scratch, failed to place. Next night, on the radio, Glenn said he would retire after this season...
...bought control of Missouri Pacific R. R. for his top-heavy Alleghany Corp. in 1930 he was tickled pink. The word that more than 50% of MOP stock was his reached him in the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. Beaming all over, O. P. dashed out of the place and around the corner to Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to tell MOP's bankers he was the new boss...
...life work in aviation is done," said Producer Julian, who did not last long as air marshal of Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 1, 1930). "I am going to devote my life now to improving the place of the Negro in motion pictures...