Word: burma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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High over the Bay of Bengal sped a lone seaplane, bound for the coast of Burma. Looking down on the watery waste, the pilot beheld three other seaplanes, westbound. The man above was Major A. Stuart MacLaren, British Air Force; the planes below bore Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson, of the U. S. A. It was the meeting of history's first round-the-globe air-racers, but the participants did not stop to exchange greetings...
...American contingent led by some 6,000 miles, having completed more than half of their 23,000-mile circuit when they alighted that evening at Calcutta, India; whereas the Briton had about 17,000 miles between him and England when he reached Rangoon, Burma...
...British plan to return on June 26. Lyons, Rome, Brindisi, Athens, Cairo, Karachai is their first lap. They will then go to Calcutta, across Burma to Hongkong and Tokyo, then across the Pacific to Vancouver, through Canada to Newfoundland, and then across the Atlantic to Lisbon, via the Azores, Paris, London. If all goes according to schedule, the two expeditions will cross each other's paths in Japan...
...route is: Los Angeles, Seattle, Prince Rupert, (B. C), Sitka (Alaska), ......... Island of Attu, Kashiwabara Bay, Bettobu (Kuriles), Minato Japan (April 17) .......... Shanghai .......... Akyab (Burma), Calcutta (May 28) .......... Bagdad, San Stefnano, Bucharest, Belgrade, Vienna, Strassbourg, Paris, London .......... Kirwall (Orkney Islands) .......... Reykjavik (Iceland), Angmaksalik (Greenland) .......... Indian Harbor (Labrador) .......... Montreal, Keyport, N. J., Washington, Dayton, St. Joseph, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles...
...Chaulmoogra seeds, from which the oil is extracted, are a product of a tree which grows freely in Burma, Bengal and Assam. The oil with a little caustic soda added, yields sodium chaulmoograte, and free chaulmoogric acid is obtained by the addition of hydrochloric acid. If a little alcohol is poured into this chaulmoogric acid ethyl chaulmoograte is obtained, that is, ethyl estermiscible with blood...