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Chungking announced a new exchange rate for foreigners: Chinese dollars, hitherto 20 to one U.S. dollar, hereafter would...
Larger Pumps. That is exactly what Morse's group did, by reducing air pressure to a rarity hitherto unattainable on an industrial scale. To do this, they had to maintain a high vacuum of less than 1 mm. air pressure inside the huge tanks and pipes where materials were to be treated. Mechanical pumps (which work not by sucking but by sweeping air out of a vessel) are not very effective at pressures below...
...conference on Pan-Arab problems came Premier Riad Solh of Lebanon. For the first time, he and his party represented an independent nation. The crisis over France's League of Nations mandate (TIME, Nov. 29) was settled. Syria and Lebanon had won their point: "all powers and capacities hitherto exercised by the French" had passed to their native governments...
...Most staggering conversion was that of hitherto fiercely anti-Christian Dr. Alfred Rosenberg (whose pagan activities were condemned by the late Pope Pius XI). Nazidom's No. 1 heathen preached a stirring Christian sermon: "Never before have millions upon millions faced death as now. What is life? ... Is it a mirage, only existing in our minds? . . . Is it a theater in which we appear as puppets, playing dramas and comedies to amuse? We do not know whom: God or Satan? Two thousand years ago a miracle occurred and Christ gave us an answer. Even those who did not believe...
...president, favored the project until he lunched, one day, in the dead-end hole. It was very dusty; his suit was dirtied; the experience antagonized him toward the scheme. Gladstone favored the tunnel; Lord Randolph Churchill quashed it with a cogent remark. Said he: "The reputation of England has hitherto depended upon her being, as it were, virgo Intacta." Periodically the project was revived, discussed, quashed. Britons mostly agreed with Winston Churchill's father, had especial reason to do so when the Germans reached Calais...