Word: burma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the week Burmese natives killed three British officers attached to an expedition operating through Upper Burma to free all remaining slaves. Over 1,000 slaves were freed by similar expeditions, last year, and the native chiefs appear incensed over this interference with their ancient property rights by agents of the British Raj, the power which seized Burma, by right of armed invasion...
...Curle, a close reined of Conrad, has travelled extensively in South America, the West Indies, Africa, the Near East, Burma, the Malay States, and in other parts of the world...
...hope that the United States will eventually become independent of foreign sources of supply," according to the 1922 Tin report of the U. S. Tariff Commission. Practically no tin is found in continental U. S. Appreciable deposits exist in Cornwall (known since the time of the Phoenicians, the Philistines), Burma, Siam, China, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Portugal, Spain and scattered regions of Africa...
...announcement was made last week at a Seventh Day Adventist camp near Worcester, Mass., that they had been presented with a houseboat by Mrs. Heber Herbert Votaw, wife of a superintendent of federal prisons, sister of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding. Mrs. Votaw once was a missionary in Burma...
Spaniards. Rangoon, Burma; then Bangkok, Siam; then Saigon and Hanoi, French Indo-China, strained their eyes in turn, and in turn beheld Captains Loriga and Gonzalez-Gallarza who had come all the way from their native Spain on a hopping-trip from Madrid in two planes. They were to keep hopping until they reached Manila in the Philippines. They received word that in crossing Japan the military authorities would not allow them to land on the Island of Formosa. But Japan's warning proved unnecessary. Landing at Macao, Asiatic Portugal, one flyer struck a tree; his comrade's plane...