Word: huges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just as he stepped from his car at the door of the Italian embassy another car drew up, bearing King Albert and Princess Marie José. The blonde Princess, sobbing wildly, rushed forward and kissed her fiance passionately, to the huge delight of the Belgian populace...
...four weeks they had been fed by the British Government, a fact not gen erally known. Government rations included meat, vegetables, bread and milk daily for all. Then the task of feeding refugees was shouldered by the Palestine Zionist Executive, repository of the huge relief contributions from abroad. Despatches last week told that the P. Z. E. at once cut out meat, vegetables and milk from the rations given to adults. Each received daily, instead, half a tin of sardines, half a loaf of bread. Milk was issued only to babes, one cup per day. Repeatedly Jewish refugees...
With neutral shipping at a Wartime premium, Denmark's Plum created Det Danske Transatlantiske Dampskibs-Sels-kab (Danish Transatlantic Steamship Corp.). Part of the huge profits he used after the Soviet Revolution to finance the anti-Bolshevist campaigns of "White Russian" General Yudenitch and Admiral Kolchak. Their failures cost him dear. In 1924 his Trans-Atlantic Corp. crashed for a stupendous loss to shareholders in which the Danish Landmansbank alone dropped 200,000,000 kroner ($53,600,000). Incensed, the Danish Government started to probe Plum...
...surrounding ocean is three to four miles deep. The difference in depth means thousands of dollars of savings to Mr. Armstrong and his financiers on the 3½ inch steel cable he is having laid to hold his floating island to its anchors. Those anchors are to be huge round bobbins which will dig into red clay of the submerged plateau and hold the seadrome from drifting. By next fall and before Bermuda's 1930-31- tourist season begins Mr. Armstrong expects to have the Langley completed and anchored in place, ready to receive tourist planes and to entertain...
...Ivory Coast, Togoland, Dahomey, the Congo-disclosed a black slave traffic. The native African, says he, is a "banana engine" making the roads of a continent at the expense of his life. He may work a month on banana fuel, then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined 25 francs; 2) native Africans practice true communism; 3) all Europe's old clothes and junk are sold to Africans; 4) the Negro is a football between African commerce and politics; 5) Senegalese...