Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silver dollars measurably less than what it would cost China to buy the weapons she requires direct from the rapacious West. In Nanking, placing the tips of their fingers calmly together, Chinese statesmen opined to fascinated white correspondents that it would surely be the part of wisdom for European nations, now so petulantly drifting into another War and with Munitions Broker Sir Basil Zaharoff dead, to buy each other off rather than blunder into the much greater expense of fighting...
Love on the Run (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Sally (Joan Crawford) is a fabulously rich U. S. heiress engaged to Igor (Ivan Lebedeff), fabulously torpid European fortune hunter. She leaves him waiting at the church to run off with Michael (Clark Gable), fabulously adroit U. S. reporter. After junketing in Europe by airplane, delivery truck and wheelbarrow, they spend a night in the palace at Fontainebleau. Michael then tells Sally simultaneously that 1) he loves her and 2) he has been using their escapade to make headlines in the U. S. Sally takes up with Michael's gullible rival reporter...
Henry Augustus Ward was a zestful young scholar who studied at Williams and under the late great Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, at Cambridge. He later attended the School of Mines at the University of Paris, paying his expenses by collecting and selling European fossils. In 1861, aged 27, he became a professor of natural science at the University of Rochester. He assembled a group of skilled preparators which, at one time or another, included Carl Akeley, Charles Livingston Bull, William T. Hornaday, Frederic Lucas. He sold a $20,000 collection of fossils to the university, but went ahead with...
...with the ports of Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston. Last week, over railroad protests, the I. C. C. recognized Albany as an Atlantic port, ordered the roads to allow Albany the lower rates to the western trunk lines applicable to seaborne goods landed at other eastern ports. In handling European shipping into the Midwest, Albany's new rate status puts her on a par with Philadelphia, behind Baltimore, ahead of New York. Another gain from last week's decision was the I. C. C.'s order to the New York Central to absorb wharfage charges in Albany...
Magallenes (Punta Arenas) is on the north shore of the Straits of Magellan in the lee of the Andes Mountains just before they march down into the Antarctic Ocean. A modern city of 25,000 people, mostly European, Magallenes is protected by the mountains from the terrific Patagonian winds, has a golf course, race track, football field. Chief industries are sheep raising, coal mining. Approximately as far south of the Equator as Cartwright, Labrador is north of it, Magallenes is now at the beginning of summer, only time the new airline will be able to function. Operated by Linea Airea...