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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people pay the Somoza expenses during the visit, from New Orleans to Washington to the New York World's Fair & back. f Senor Somoza's presents to Sefior Roosevelt: a complete issue of Nicaraguan stamps; an 8-ft. table inlaid with Nicaraguan hardwoods and gold, showing Roosevelt I and a map of the Panama Canal, Roosevelt II and a much bigger map of Nicaragua and the proposed canal...
Chungking is a gigantic anthill which sits where the Kialing joins the Yangtze River. Ancient, 100-ft. walls confine the old section of Chungking to five square miles of an eminence 150 ft. above the rivers. Inside walled Chungking the streets, now pitted with holes filled with water for fire prevention, rise steeply, often in steps, between flimsy wooden buildings crammed with refugees and Government offices. Across its congestion Japanese bombers laid parallel lines of destruction, a mile and a half long, 500 yards wide. They dropped more than 100 bombs...
Submarine Canyons. Modern methods of exploring the ocean bottom by echo-sounding have disclosed several huge undersea canyons. One of these submerged gorges, lying off the Hudson River's mouth, is 130 miles long and its lower end lies under 7,500 ft. of Atlantic Ocean. One theory has it that submarine canyons were cut during the Glacial Age by surface rivers. This could have occurred only if the sea level was then nearly two miles lower than it is now - a presumption difficult to account for, even allowing for water drawn into the great Glacial Age ice sheets...
George Downing who set a new Crimson mark of 49 feet last week will be out to shave his own record as well as the dual meet mark of 47 ft. 8 3-4 inches. Supported by Howie Mendel and Nat Heard he should lead Harvard to a sweep in its strongest event...
...ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs., is a Negro handyman in Knoxville, who "jest don't care nothin' about a stiddy job." Says Joe: "The Lord cut me out in the shape of a man that's naturally made to have a good time. But he didn't give me the money to have that good time...