Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bulgarian but a Swiss am I, though born in Bulgaria. This as a word of caution to you in case you ever run into one of the thousands of Zwickys whose lives and deaths stand recorded in the church registers (Kirchenbücher) of Mollis, Canton of Glarus, Switzerland for over 600 years...
...Shore C. D. Winnetka, Ill. Elser, Peter F. D. 17 195 6.1 Kent New York City Healy, William P. Jr. 18 185 6.1 Roxbury Latin Boston Hinckley, Frank L. Jr. 18 185 6.4 St. George's Providence, R.I. Homans, William P. Jr. 16 170 6.3 South Kent Canton Kunan, Richard E. 17 190 5.11 Holbrook High Holbrook Lee, Roger I. Jr. 17 205 5.10 Milton Academy Brookline Lovett, Eugene T. 17 185 6.1 Cambridge Latin Cambridge Lowry, Donald 18 175 6. Liberty High Liberty, Mo. McKee, John 16 180 5.9 Newtown High New York City MacMaster, Robert...
...largest fleet in the world, an effective blockade of China would still be a far easier move than an effective blockade of Spain. In all that coast there are just six ports with effective rail connection with China's interior north-to-south: Tientsin. Tsingtao, Haichow, Shanghai, Hangchow, Canton. Shanghai is bottled up. Tientsin Japan already controls. Blockading the other ports is none too difficult, was made a thousand times easier last week by President Roosevelt's order forbidding the exporting of munitions on U. S.-owned ships...
Subscriptions which travel through the cities of Shanghai, Peiping, Nanking, Hankow, and Canton have been affected...
Unfounded rumors of silver shipments totaling $100,000,000 from Canton and other cities in the interior of China to Hong Kong broke the price of bar silver in London to a new 1937 low of 19¼d (43?) an oz., 1½? below the U. S. price. Result- the U. S. Treasury therefore became a heavy buyer until the price differential was erased. Arbitragers promptly took advantage of the same situation, and 3,175,000 ounces of their silver last week arrived in Manhattan. On a war scare virtually all principal foreign currencies developed weaknesses against the dollar...