Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willing to give $100,000 to the man who invents synthetic opium. Strangely enough Mr. Metz thinks he can succeed where the ill-fated Opium Conference failed. Put cheap opium production into the hands of western scientists, argues the prize offer, and you eliminate the opium complex of the East...
...revolution was predicted in India as the inevitable outcome of any tampering with the opium trade. Just what advantage is to be derived from destroying the opium interests of the East through economic rather than political means is dubious. Poppy raisers will doubtlessly object as much to disasterous competition by cheap synthetic opium producers as to fatal government protocols...
...Germans accused the Polish of mismanagement, charged that the incident was indirectly due to the Versailles Treaty, "bewailed the fact that Germans had to entrust their safety to "Polish management," a German term meaning mismanagement. They held that the Polish boundary must be revised so as to join East Prussia with the Fatherland...
...strip of Polish territory leading to :he sea, west of the free city of Danzig, which strip separates East Prussia from the rest of Prussia, traversing purely German land...
After 31 weeks of tour, performances in 100 cities through Canada, the Pacific Coast, East, South, Middle West, the San Carlo Opera Company ended its season with a presentation of Aïda in Newark, N. J. For next year, Director Gallo, whose name is Fortune, announced presentations in English of Faust, Hansel and Gretel, promised at least one opera in English in each weekly engagement. In June, he goes to Europe to gather new stars, new stimulus...