Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their competitive plans they are not without competition from others. On the east coast there are the long and well fixed Condor Air Lines and the Campagnie Generate Aeropostale. Condor is German-owned, a subsidiary of the German-subsidized Luft Hansa, strongest aviation concern of Middle Europe if not of all Europe. Condor does a good mail and passenger service between Asuncion, Para guay, Buenos Aires and Para, Brazil. Competing is Aeropostale, French-subsidized. Its main purpose is to rush mail from Buenos Aires to Natal, Brazil, whence fast ships rush the sacks across the Atlantic to Dakar, Senegal...
...interior of the west coast, two lines are operating. The more important is Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, a German-owned concern which carries passengers over the rough Bolivia plateau. The other is Faucett Aviation Co., headed by Elmer J. Faucett of the U. S., who has settled in Peru. U. S. businessmen who are forced to enter the Peruvian interior hire Faucett taxi-planes. He portages them over mountains three miles high...
...Esperanto is pronounced as spelt, with the accent on the antipenult. The "i" is pronounced "ee;" accent-marked consonants are aspirated. ?After Sept. 1, teaching of English will be compulsory in all Czechoslovak schools. German is already compulsory...
Last week in the Churchman was launched a drive, by no means the first, to reinstate Bishop Jones, socialist, pacifist, hater of war as unchristian, the man during the late War, accused of being pro-German, said: "I believe most sincerely that German brutality and aggression must be stopped and I am willing, if need be, to give my life and what I possess to bring that about." He questioned that war was the right method, and, therefore, since he was in conflict with his government and his Church, lost his diocese. Today the Protestant churches are pacifistic. No longer...
...Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, long of beard, lame of leg, empty of right sleeve, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since 1923 to attend, in Baltimore, the annual convention of the Rainbow (42nd) Division which was under his command when he broke the German offensive in the crucial Battle of Champagne (July 1918). Historians recalled that both General Gouraud's legs and one arm were riddled in Gallipoli. Surgeons said the arm would heal in three months. The General asked how soon he could return to the front if the arm were amputated...