Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost every Paris newspaper except those owned by Perfumer-Publisher Coty has been urging for months that a one-for-three quota be imposed, instead of the present one-for-seven arrangement which U. S. Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays secured on his famed visit to Paris (TIME, May 14), but which expires next September...
...Croydon as it was this past year was better than Tempelhof; British flyers call Tempelhof better than Croydon. Croydon's chief merit is that planes have a 1,400-yd runway in any direction. Practically all the field is grass-covered. That permits comfortable landings and takeoffs, except in rainy weather. Then the planes tear up the sod. To remedy that fault Croydon officials are considering putting a paved strip all around the field, as at the Rotterdam field. Croydon has two steel and concrete hangars, providing 90,000 sq. ft. of floor space. Each hangar has overhead cranes...
...exports to China were almost 50% greater than in 1927, China buying slightly more U. S. merchandise than Italy. Exports to Japan also expanded (12% over 1927), Japan outranking all the Continental countries except Germany. Chinese were enthusiastic buyers of leaf tobacco, cigarets and illuminating oil; Japan leaned toward cotton and automobiles...
...rise in coffee imports assured increased purchases from Brazil, Columbia and Venezuela, the two last also adding to their crude petroleum sales. Chile copper and Chile sodium nitrate accounted for the Chilean gain. Low prices for silk and rubber resulted in smaller purchases from all Oriental countries except India. The ten countries selling the most goods (millions of dollars) to the U. S. in 1928 were: Canada 489.0 Japan 384.3 United Kingdom 348.4 Germany 222.0 Brazil 220.7 British Malaya 204.3 Cuba 202.7 France 158.7 China 156.6 British India...
...opponent of the week Saturday on the Divinity Courts. Here as in the N. Y. U. match, the greater than average strength of the players in the last three positions of the line-up was the decisive feature of the contest Saturday when Harvard won all the singles matches except the first alid the third and lost the first two of the doubles...