Word: shored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yangtze steamed Japanese troopships with 55,000 aboard. Some 13,000 landed at various points near Woosung at the junction of the Whangpoo and Yangtze north of Shanghai; the rest, 42,000, stayed aboard waiting for an all-clear signal, while Japanese men-of-war made demonstrations along the shore. When the Japanese made their main landing in force, the first 700 men ashore, led by 70 picked troops who formed a shirodasukitai ("White Band of Death"), swept the first Chinese aside, pushed on towards what they thought was the second defense line of the Chinese. As soon as they...
Hamlin D. Smith, Winnetka, Illinois--North Shore Country Day School...
Thomas L. Eliot, Winnetka, Illinois--North Shore Country Day School...
...joins the yellow muddy estuary of the Yangtze lay the mass of the Japanese fleet, over 50 warships, including four battleships, six battle cruisers, 38 destroyers and one of Japan's four aircraft carriers. Most were slowly steaming back & forth to avoid almost constant sniping from Chinese on shore. At times there were as many as 20 Japanese warships in the Whangpoo which discharged and reloaded swarms of airplanes, swung their heavy guns to shell first one section of Shanghai and then another, and ferried every available sailor and marine ashore, for in such a battle, as the Japanese...
...York, both respected by their ex-colleagues, shouldered the contact work. A dozen lawyer-lobbyists and refiner-lobbyists, headed by General Counsel H. Beach Carpenter, stood ready at all times to see that the Congress did not lack for convincing information. Why, demanded the lobbyists, enlarge an industry off-shore when the same industry was at 62% capacity on the continent...