Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomatist, Her Majesty did not have many serious problems to be clever about in the first part of her reign. There was friction with Venezuela over the Dutch-owned islands of Curasao; the problem of protecting trade interests in Turkey and China; concern over Mexico's program, even then taking shape, of annexing foreign oil properties...
...more on circumstance than on conscious planning. Unlike the British, early Dutch colonizers were not discouraged from marrying native women and no social ostracism came to them or their half-caste children. Moreover, the Dutch have scrupulously refused to allow the slightest tampering with the natives' moral code, even going so far as to bar missionaries in some islands. But the native living standard is little, if any, higher than in similar British colonies. If the Dutch have experienced fewer revolts in The Indies than the British have in India, it is largely because the natives of the Indies...
...Borneo and Java, tin to be dug in Bangka. Coffee, tea, tobacco, sugar, rice are the more ordinary products; but copra as a basis for facial creams, lizard skins for shoes and handbags, Sumatra wrappers for cigars, cinchona bark for quinine, sandalwood and teakwood, ebony and macassar oil, and even the bare-breasted women of Bali, tourist paradise, do their full share in making this Netherlands overseas a going concern...
...occurs mainly among neurotics who have an unconscious fear of falling. Far more serious is "acute altitude sickness," caused by decrease in the pressure of the oxygen breathed at high altitudes. Altitude sickness, says Dr. Armstrong, is a tough problem. Few people ever feel its painful symptoms while aloft, even though its serious effects may begin at altitudes as low as 9,000 feet. Reason: as the amount and pressure of oxygen breathed is decreased, the senses are dulled, so that bodily changes which would normally cause pain are not felt. Above altitudes of 12,000 feet...
...Pitts.-Several of these statesmen courted gout by stuffing themselves with mutton chops and port. But hard-working Neville Chamberlain is no high liver. Said his sympathetic friends: his trouble was "poor man's gout," a hereditary chronic disease (his father, Joseph Chamberlain, had it) which may torment even teetotalers...