Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore last week when the creaking old Fabre liner Asia burned to her water line in the Red Sea harbor of Jidda, out of some thousand pious Mecca pilgrims, 112 shrewd Mohammedans who knew a good thing when they saw it, refused absolutely to leave the ship, knelt on the burning deck, died in an agony of expectation. The few Occidental passengers, the crew and the remaining pilgrims were rescued by harbor craft, but the Asia, on which many a U. S. citizen has sailed from Manhattan to the Near East, burned for a total loss...
...Just try to think of Asia in terms of the machinery she uses as compared with the machinery we use," demanded R. J. Cromie, publisher of the Vancouver Sun. "Canada and the United States use about $23.60 worth of machinery per individual; England comes next with about $11. . . . In China, India and Java the amount of machinery would not run over 30 or 40 cents per individual...
Between 1882 and 1885 this terrible parasite swept the vineyards of France, blighted more than 2,500,000 acres, caused an estimated loss of $250,000,000. Next it spread to Australia and New Zealand, where French vines had been transplanted. Piercing at last the recesses of Asia, the triumphant plant louse blighted even the vineyards of His Highness the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir...
Most traveled of U. S. publishers is Van Lear Black of the Baltimore Sun. In his own trimotored Fokker monoplane, accompanied by pilots, secretary and valet, he has pleasure-jaunted some 130,000 mi. through Europe, Africa, Asia and the U. S. Last week he arrived in San Francisco aboard the liner Tatsuta Maru with the plane and crew which had taken him 6,000 mi. from Croydon, England to Osaka, Japan. Simultaneously, Sun readers tasted the Burton Holmes influence of Publisher Black's peregrinations. Six of the Sun's eight front-page column-tops were devoted...
...from Canada, Honolulu, Mexico, went 236 delegates to a Manhattan convention of the Association of Junior Leagues of America, socialite welfare organization. After electing officers, they ratified a proposal for establishing an International Junior League. Next autumn their committee will consider applications for admission from ladies in Europe and Asia. Charter members of foreign city leagues must be mostly natives there. The first international committee meeting will be financed...