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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...them to hell," Dr. Lemon authored a new kind of textbook, From Galileo to Cosmic Rays. Written with insight and humor but with scientific integrity, it was illustrated with sly drawings by Artist Chichi Lasley, one of which showed a student fleeing in horror from a blackboard covered with difficult equations...
Cotton. Since the bulk of U. S. cotton must be marketed abroad, this year's crop of 16,098,000 bales, fifth largest in history and biggest since 1931. may be difficult to sell in markets glutted by a record world production of 35,600,000 bales. As a result, cotton prices fell to the lowest in four years-87? a lb. Nonetheless, with a subsidy of 3? a lb. on 65% of the ''base'' production of 16,000,000 bales the farm value of the new crop will be some...
Interviewed in his office in Langdell Hall the former SEC chairman and that he was glad to return to Harvard after an absence of four years. Once started on legal subjects, it was difficult to sidetrack the Dean to matters of his private life...
...Harvardian how many museums his University possesses, and he will undoubtedly reel off the names of the Fogg and either the Germanic of the Semitic museums. A few even might remember having heard rumors of a vague institution known as the University Museum. But it is indeed a difficult task to find men who are in the know about such establishments, officially going under the title of museums, as the Harvard Seismograph Station, the Institute of Geographical Exploration, the Yenching Institute, or the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research...