Word: extended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Railways. Two projects exist for linking India to Europe by rails. The first would begin by completing the famed Berlin-to-Bagdad link (which already functions to a point some miles south of Aleppo) and then extend the line from Bagdad through Persia to India. A development of prime significance in this region, last week, was the signing at Teheran, Persia, of a $100,000,000 contract whereby an international group including Ulen & Co. and J. G. White Engineering Corp. of Manhattan have agreed to build a railroad from Bander Abbas on the Persian gulf to the Persian capital...
...second and much shorter way to connect up rail linkage between India and Europe would be simply to extend across Afghanistan the lines which already come up from India and down from Russia to the very borders of King Amanullah's realm. Although funds for such a project are not immediately in prospect, His Majesty arranged while in Berlin to have two German engineering firms make preliminary surveys of these routes...
Associated Press. Two resolutions were adopted: 1) to extend special voting rights and protest rights to the entire A. P. membership of 1,200 newspapers; 2) to float a new bond issue of $500,000, of which no member can buy more than $1,000 worth...
...first the investigation was confined to an examination of county jail prisoners, but later it was thought advisable to extend the study to the more serious offenders in penal institutions of the State, and to the criminal and the civil insane. The investigation so begun has now developed, on the anthropological side, to a survey of criminals in selected areas of the country at large...
...five-sevenths of the World's rubber, she might, by curtailing her own production, create a scarcity of rubber such that the price would rise. In the year 1925, as has been said, this assumption was temporarily justified. So high a price, however, encouraged rival Dutch producers to extend their plantations. Moreover U. S. rubber manufacturers, urged by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, proceeded to circumvent partially the artificially high price of new rubber by turning to the use of reclaimed rubber and other substitutes. As a result the scarcity artificially created by Great Britain has progressively ceased...