Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomacy, blinking before a Rising Sun in the Far East and plagued by strange new stars in the political firmament of Europe, last week set a hopeful course under the moon of the Caribbees. A sleek black peace ship, the Grace Liner Santa Clara, steamed southward toward ancient Lima, Peru, and the eighth Pan American Conference. Aboard were a distinguished U. S. delegation and its distinguished chairman, who at Montevideo in 1933 and at Buenos Aires in 1936 changed the Latin American picture of Uncle Sam from a giant with a club into a kindly Tennessee judge. As the Santa...
...Economically this territory is important to both Germany and England because it is a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured products. Politically it is no less important. Germany would like to control it because it is the stile across the Fiihrer's push to the East. Britain would like to check German control of it because she wants no eastern pushing across the Balkan Peninsula into the British-dominated markets of the Near East...
Most citizens east of the Rockies get badly mixed up on their dams and few of them care. But the queer-looking drawing below, in addition to representing bread-in-the-mouths of Californians, shows something oddly unique in man's continual fretting & fussing with his environment...
...years geologists have wondered what physiographic (earth-changing) agency caused wide alluvial plains-like the nine-mile valley floor east of Troy, N. Y.-which are out of all proportion to the deposits attributable to their present small streams. Last week Geologists Rudolf Ruedemann and Walter J. Schoonmaker of the New York State Museum solved the riddle, and at the same time implied that either geologists should get outdoors more or, when they did get out, should be looking at other things besides rocks. The physiographic force which had caused the Troy plain, and others like it, was the beaver...
...society sent to India one of the most famed missionaries of all time, Isabella Thoburn. For her it named Asia's first college for women-in Lucknow, India. It dispatched to the East the first U. S. woman doctor, Clara Swain. Today the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, spending some $1,500,000 a year on 5,500 missionaries, Bible women and other workers in 17 lands, is the largest U. S. organization of its kind. Last week, not without some pangs and misgivings, it faced the prospect of losing its identity-in the impending merger...