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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shasta Dam will be one more world wonder for Californians to boast about-more than half again as vast a bulk of masonry as the Great Pyramid, only 167 ft. lower than Boulder Dam (world's highest: 727 ft.), only 700 ft. shorter at the crest than Grand Coulee (world's longest: 4.200 ft.). World's No. 2 Dam in these respects, it will be No. 1 for the height of its overflow: 480 ft., or thrice the fall of Niagara...
...firm hold on the westward slope of Changkufeng. Russia agreed to submit final ownership to arbitration, thus gave up her previous absolute claim to Changkufeng. For this truce Japan last week was ready to pay off in kudos. Tokyo dispatches prophesied the forthcoming promotion of Ambassador Shigemitsu to the highest rung in the Japanese diplomatic ladder, Ambassador to London...
...mahout in the elephant stables of the Maharaja of Mysore, Sabu was picked by Director Robert Flaherty to play the lead in Elephant Boy two years ago. Now 15 and one of the half-dozen highest paid child stars in cinema, he goes to a boarding school at Beaconsfield, where he plays halfback on the second Rugby team, keeps a flat in London, where he lives with his brother, a tutor and three servants, drives himself about in a miniature car, often visits the London zoo, where he makes friends with the elephants and stables his mongoose, Rikki...
...half century of U. S. polo, only 15 players have ever attained handicap ratings of ten goals, the game's highest rank. One of the first ten-goalers was Thomas Hitchcock Sr. (1894, 1900, 1901), who captained the first U. S. team that challenged England for the Westchester Cup. Tommy Jr. has been ranked at ten goals for 16 years-greatest feat in polo history...
...Trenchard, Lord Stamp. Said these noble lords, while the world approached a crisis (see p. 17): ''The world cannot forever continue plunging from crisis to crisis. We must act before crisis ends in catastrophe. . . . God's living spirit calls each nation like each individual to its highest destiny and breaks down the barriers of fear and greed, of suspicion and haired...