Word: central
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stabilization loan of $105,000,000 will be floated as a result of legislation passed, last week in Bucharest, by the Rumanian Chamber of Deputies. Behind this transaction stand the central banks of 14 nations.* Their joint representative in Rumania will be a Frenchman, suave Charles Rist. Last week M. Rist resigned as a Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, hopped a train for Bucharest. There he will assist the new Peasant Government of Rumania (TIME, Nov. 19) to place the leu on an absolute gold basis at its present rate of exchange, 167.18 lei to the dollar...
...Throne of God is a vast mountain of the Tien Shans in Central Asia where Russia gnaws into China. There on the border Ivan Pavlovitch Tokareff was, for this story, the misogynist commander of the Cossack police garrison. And there his boyish niece Fedossia went to visit him. They hunted in the deserts, chased and captured Kara-Kirghiz bandits, rescued a lecherous Russian fop from the underground Chinese desert city Tourfan, partook in a Kirghiz baiga (rodeo), found gold together, watched the Fouidoutoun of Souidoun dynamite himself, his family and his dwelling in despair over the Chinese revolution, and decided...
...Harvard: Fair and Cooler," he has done his-best to scare up a half dozen pages worth of "human interest" in one of our oldest and most tradition-bound colleges. In proving the central point of his article: "that Harvard men suffer from a painful tradition that they must appear to be indifferent when they are not," he has as usual fallen far short of success. But once again he has been moderately successful in being amusing. That the Crimson has taken Mr. Roberts' penny shocker seriously only adds to the entertainment of the general public. Cornell Daily...
More important than the merger itself was its possible effect upon the status quo existing in the eastern railroad field. There are four main systems: Pennsylvania, New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio and Nickel Plate (Van Sweringen). Four years ago these four railroads held conferences in which the eastern railroad field was tentatively divided among them, but the negotiations were abandoned chiefly because the Pennsylvania did not believe that it had received its proper share of the short lines. Since the failure of these negotiations, no decisive merger movement has taken place. Last fortnight, however, the New York Central secured...
...virtually on a north-&-south line with each other. Both coasts lie between 70° and 80° West Longitude. Down part of that geographical corridor started Colonel Lindbergh last week-from New York to Miami to Havana, thence across the Caribbean to British Honduras, thence through Central American countries to the Canal Zone- carrying the first trans-Caribbean airmail. The day he left Miami, Feb. 4, was his 2/th birthday...