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...Canon Alexander's opinion this would mean the crumbling end of one of London's tallest, most venerated buildings. He urged that Parliament create the region of St. Paul's a "sacred area" within which all digging and blasting would be perpetually forbidden. First proposed in 1912 the "sacred area" scheme was rejected then by a businessmen's majority of the London City Corporation...
Again last week the gutters of the Himalayas ran news. Sometime ago- goodness knew when-and for some reason or other-goodness knew what-an army of 60,000 sturdy soldiers marched from Nepal and were last week ominously approaching Lhasa, famed "Forbidden City," capital of that remote pope the Grand Dalai Lama of Tibet...
...11th anniversary of the Amritsar Massacre (when over 300 Indian men and women were shot down by British troops) half a million natives gathered on the beach near Bombay to scoop up water, extract forbidden salt by evaporation. Towards evening a huge, blood-red papier-mache monster, symbolizing the salt tax, was dumped into the ocean...
Allegheny Corp., according to Mr. Eastman, beside controlling the Van Sweringen roads forbidden to merge by the I. C. C.. now owns 20% of Kansas City Southern, is buying into Sante Fe and Great Northern. It controls Missouri Pacific which the I. C. C. never intended to go into such a vast East-West lineup...
...stiff, superior, condescending and ungracious to be of any use in promoting trade. When this report was about to be issued the office of a worldwide press agency in London received advance copies in time to mail them to South America before the release date, but were absolutely forbidden to mail to the U. S. The Ford method was imported in Czechoslovakia, high wages and all, by Thomas Bat'a (TIME. Oct. 8, 1928). He is now the undisputed shoe tycoon of Europe, but unpopular. Socialist sheets charge that he pays his men double, then exacts triple and quadruple...