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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spanish brown bears, frightened by the clash of Rightist and Leftist forces among the crags of the Pyrenees, came loping in large numbers over the frontier into France last week. Another refugee from North Leftist Spain was the Socialist who built its People's Army, famed Indalecio Prieto. Traveling by car with two women of his family and a secretary, Socialist Prieto said shortly to correspondents at the frontier: "Yes, we are driving up to Paris, but I have no mission...
...wide by 50 long lying between the Lepine Mountains, which drains down onto its bogs and the Tyrrhenian Sea. What is now Littoria was, before the days of Ancient Rome, an extremely fertile country whose natives, the Volsci, were adept at maintaining the ditches and drains they had built to turn these swamplands into fertile fields, with 24 rich cities. Unfortunately the Romans, then barbarians and innocent of their later culture, sacked the cities and killed off the Volsci. About 600 B. c. they were first smitten by dread malaria. Of these dire swamps wrote Vergil, Juvenal, Martial, Horace, Ovid...
...maintained on Irish soil. 2) The six-year-old dispute over land annuities (guaranteed absentee Irish landlords by Britain after their estates were expropriated) is to be settled by the lump payment to Britain of $50,000,000. 3) The two nations agree to raze their retaliatory tariff walls built up since the land annuities squabble began in 1932. The pact will go into effect as soon as it is ratified by both Parliaments, will run for three years...
Blooming by day in the Radcliffe, Yard, but modestly retiring into a cellar at five o'clock every day, a four-foot tulip has been amazing passersby. This horticultural marvel, is, however, only a department store creation, built up from wire and paper...
Last week came first results. Tall, tan Lewin Barringer wedged himself into the small cockpit of the German-built, Du Pont-owned sailplane Minimoa, was towed into the sky by an airplane at Wichita Falls, Tex., cut loose at 10:45 a. m. Six hours later he landed at Spartan Airport, Tulsa, Okla. Over Oklahoma City he had soared 7,500 feet into the air, 1,267 feet higher than the U. S. altitude record set by his friend Dick du Pont in 1934. He had covered 210 miles, 52 better than the U. S. distance record, also Du Pont...