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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater than that of Cristalina, growing under similar agronomic conditions, and, as it is a more persistent grower, the fields do not need replanting so frequently. The cane stalks are solid and of greater weight than Cristalina. A sample of 22 carloads of this cane averaged 239 arrobas per car heavier than an equal number of Cristalina. (Cristalina usually weighs from 1,000 to 1,100 arrobas per carload...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARBOUR EXPLAINS WORK BEING CARRIED ON BY HARVARD AT SOLEDAD PLANTATION | 5/31/1928 | See Source »

Speeding north by train and motor car to Dehra Dun, His Excellency began to "rest" by setting out from there on horseback into the jungle covered foothills of the Himalayas, mightiest of mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Viceroy up Himalayas | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...summit of Chaur Mountain, 11,966 feet above sea level. Then, continuing northward, they scrambled down some 7,000 feet into the jungle beyond. On the following day His Excellency walked 23 miles and climbed 4,000 feet to Phagu, where he was met by a motor car and whisked 14 miles to the comfortable Viceregal Lodge at Simla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Viceroy up Himalayas | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Last week the British Viscount who thus champions defeated Hungary before the victorious Allies, sent his son to Budapest, to accept the nation's thanks. As young Esmond Harmsworth approached the Capital in an open motor car the demonstration in his honor became so fervent and spontaneous that he was fairly mobbed by hearty wenches in bright peasant costumes who roughly seized and thoroughly kissed his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Homage to Harmsworth | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...intend to dress them up in a lot of pretty white suits. We want to learn about selling as an average dealer does-under the same conditions. We want to know what the factors are that bring about a satisfactory financial statement. We want to know more about used car selling. I expect to go on the lot myself to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Shirt-Sleeve Agency | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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