Word: burma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mournfully over a long drink Prince Svasti said: "The King agreed to the present temporary constitution, which makes him a puppet, solely to prevent bloodshed. We are a buffer state between French Indo-China and British Burma. Civil war in Siam would mean that both the French and English would intervene, ostensibly to protect their nationals. That would be the end of Siam...
Most jade comes from upper Burma and southeastern Turkestan. In the western hemisphere it is found in its natural state only in Alaska. Of cut jade five very fine specimens have been found in Mexico. One is now in Berlin, another in Stuttgart, a third in the National Museum of Mexico. A fourth is at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. It is a light green jadeite axe-head, a foot long, with a snouted, bawling face on its side. Last week a fifth piece went on exhibition at the American Museum. Found 22 years...
...York Stock Exchange, went bald, spindly Author Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, nonsensical organization of men who, as youngsters, used to pump wind for church organs. Grand Diapason Shafer wanted to consult Pumper Whitney about two shares of Burma Corp. Ltd. ("Burma Lead") which he had bought at $5.50 for the Guild on a "hot tip" in 1929. Last autumn when the Guild's exchequer was lower than usual and the stock was quoted at $1.87, he decided to sell. In order to escape paying the $5 commission...
...back two years. As a senior Bewick, Moreing partner he made $125,000 per year, not counting directors' fees and bonuses. By 1908 when he left Bewick, Moreing to work for himself, he was worth $500,000 or more. His biggest venture and largest success was the Burma mines, producing lead, silver, copper and zinc. In 1914 his Burma shares were worth $1,141,465. Friction developed with his partner and in 1915 he started to liquidate his Burma mines holdings. From them he got between $2,654,000 and $3,142,000. As consultant and director from...
These accounts of Mr. Wees's tribulations exasperated Professor Thomas Barbour, director of the Harvard Museum for which Mr. Wees ostensibly traveled. Professor Barbour had made zoological explorations in the East and West Indies, in Burma, China and Japan, in Central and South America. As a professional explorer he had no sympathy for the whimperings reported from Paraguay. On the other hand, as museum director he was mightily concerned with the public's reaction to a Harvard traveler's troubles. The sensationalized murder of Columbia University's Henrietta Schmerler when she bungled among the Apaches (TIME...