Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among these were Liberia, Peru, Costa Rica, Santo Domingo, Panama, Uruguay, Cuba, Brazil, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Haiti, Latvia, Greece, Bulgaria, Lithuania and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
Brooklyn, N. Y., makes attar of roses; Bulgaria suffers. Flushing, N.Y., makes citronella; to Java's detriment. Newark, N. J., makes vanillin against vanilla from Seychelle, Mexico and Reunion.† New Jersey ivroid harms African ivory, its bakelite, Central American mahogany. Delaware makes amber (East Prussian commodity) substitute...
...deal with such a subject. The answer is: In 1878, there were a dozen international conferences. One, at Berlin, had to do with peace (Disraeli v. Bis marck). Another, no longer mentioned in history books, had to do with prisons and resulted in a commission to which Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, etc. each contributed a commissioner. Mr. Chisolm was the U. S.'s fourth contribution. To succeed him, the President must appoint a fifth before the next prison conference...
...brave monarch does not hesitate when a great forest and grain fire is ravaging his realm. Last week Little Tsar Boris sallied forth to Southern Bulgaria, over which hung a wispish smoke pall. For three days green forests had been turning into fields of black stumps, white villas into red embers, and fields of ripe grain into roaring bonfires. Naturally His Majesty the Tsar, a bachelor, was accompanied into the fire zone by his good and faithful sister, Her Royal Highness the Princess Eudoxia. She, too, is brave...
...prohibitions and restrictions by the various nations. It was agreed that Chile, for example, might continue temporarily to exercise governmental control over her imports of scrap iron and scrap zinc, and over the importation of hares. Portugal retained temporary control of her fine wool and raw cork exports. Bulgaria chose to guard her exports of rose trees, roots, shoots; Sweden, her scrap iron; Czechoslovakia, her hop shoots...