Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, Mary, aged 41, "only elephant in the zoo," died. Her carcass, old and tough, was used to feed other animals. In order to enable "even the most savage lions to eat the flesh," it was necessary to "boil it for a week...
...picture came from the Simon collection in Berlin and is said to have belonged formerly to the Earl of Carlyle. It is published on page 38 in Kiassiker der Kunst, but at the time of publication was suffering from a darkened varnish which has since been cleaned...
...Berlin received its first shipment of "real" bananas in a year. The word "real" was inserted in the despatch to prevent confusion with the well known German song, Ach, wir haben keinen bannanen, heute. Shipments arrived from Holland and England and 60,000 cases were placed on the market at the Hamburg docks. Heretofore the anti-luxury act has forbidden bananas, oranges...
...Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, who has been giving evidence in Paris, has been hailed in Berlin as "the miracle man" and great enthusiasm was entertained for the proposed gold bank...
...effective cure for sleeping sickness would transform equatorial Africa into a desirable habitation for mankind. From Berlin have come repeated reports that F. K. Kleine has perfected a cure which will soon be announced. In 1895 Surgeon General Sir David Bruce showed that the parasite (try-panasoma gambiense) was communicated to human beings and to cattle by the tsetse fly. In 1907 the British Government called an international conference to deal with the evil. No help could be found. In the Autumn of 1921 Dr. Kleine went to Africa with a compound. He set up a camp of wooden huts...