Word: imported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Statesmen thought that the Nationalist Declaration will lead to negotiations of the very largest world import, IF, and only if the vast and various armies and "Nationalists" populations are now able to calling achieve a work themselves ing solidarity. Such professed National ists as Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, who has a personal army of 195,000 men, are capable of resuming the status of regional dictators they have held in the past...
...seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm farms and river industries. Along Tokyo bay are shipyards, steel & iron foundries, factories for making textiles, paper, chemicals, machinery, pottery, cement, rayon. What coal those plants can get in Japan is of poor grade; what coal they can get by import is expensive. So they turn for power to electricity. And the Tokyo Electric Light Co. supplies it. No wonder, remarks Wall Street, the company has paid dividends every one of its 42 years of existence and had $45.344,701 gross revenue last year...
...industry, he rebuked the late Judge Elbert Henry Gary and spoke harshly of the 12-hour working day prevalent then, Bishop McConnell's name has been perhaps more familiar to laymen than that of any other Methodist. Always vitally interested in questions of public as well as churchly import, Bishop McConnell headed the active Committee on Christian Unity and Industrial Problems at the recent International Missionary Council in Jerusalem. At Kansas City, Bishop Mc Connell was assailed on almost frivolous charges of "maladministration and immorality. " In transferring him to the New York Bishopric, which is regarded as a promotion...
...decrees of major import were issued, last week, under the imperious aegis of paunchy, florid Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella. The first almost quadruples Spain's usual appropriation for naval construction and brings the sum available for this purpose in 1928 up to 600,000,000 pesetas ($100,200,000). The second establishes the manufacture of paper as a State monopoly, thus strengthening the direct control over Spanish newspapers already exercised by the present Dictature...
...this capacity, his first move was to import the Hans Von Bulow Orchestra from Hamburg to the Chicago World's Fair. Next he captured Sandow, the strong...