Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelve richest men in Europe is Belgium's picturesque, choleric Emile Francqui. Like the late great Cecil Rhodes, he found his fortune and lost his temper beneath the blazing sun of Africa-Belgian Congo. Three years ago, as Finance Minister, he won world fame by ''saving'' (stabilizing) the Belgian franc (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926). For the past month he has represented Belgium on the Second Dawes Committee which is striving at Paris to revise the Dawes Plan (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Last week a news leak from the secret Committee sessions revealed that...
...various characters in the tray, a pointer, and the customary platen mechanism. The pointer is attached by a system of levers to the type tray; and when the former is brought over a desired character on the indicator, the corresponding letter on the type tray is brought beneath a small receptacle open at the bottom, but covered at the top by a rubber ball. A lever is pressed, suction is created in the receptacle, the letter is raised from its place in the tray, brought into contact with the platen, and put back in its place...
...called Keys of Earth & Heaven crossed beneath the Papal Tiara was the device which adorned postage stamps of the Papal State up to 1870. Last week Protestant and Ku Klux postmen faced the possibility that they may have to deliver letters bearing such stamps, should a new series be issued by the newly reorganized Papal State (TIME, Feb. 18). In Rome last week the question "What about stamps?" drew this suave, disarming answer from Francesco, Prince Massimo...
Holland Profit. The Holland Tunnel, vehicular toll tunnel beneath the Hudson River, is making money at a rate which indicates a $5,000,000 profit for 1929. Last year's profit was about $3,600,000, and 1929 traffic has shown a 25 per cent increase. Tunnel profits are shared jointly by New York and New Jersey to repay State construction costs...
Calvin Coolidge will forget neither these things, nor many more - that hot summer when his younger son, Calvin Coolidge Jr., overcome by a deadly infection, passed away; the cold winter when his father, Col. John Calvin Coolidge, was laid to rest beneath New England snows...