Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopeful "Uncle Arthur Henderson, president of the Conference, went round to see Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Optimistically he pulled from his pocket a new project to outlaw bombing from the air. But there were exceptions: 1) For police purposes, bombing from the air in outlying frontier regions like northwest India and Morocco will be allowed. 2) It will be fair to drop bombs on submarines...
...cotton war between Japan and Britain budded and bloomed in India five years ago. Remembering the picturesque but inefficient spinning wheel of St. Gandhi, people forget that even in 19^9 idia had a modern, highly efficient domestic cotton industry capable of supplv-mg all but 25% of her needs. That 25% was the prize, and in 1929 Britain got twice as much of it as did Japan. Then came Depression, the Gandhi anti-British boy, depreciation of the yen. Japanese cotton sales to India rose "and rose until by 1932 they not only passed Britain but were cutting seriously...
...sistra. . . . Each man and woman brought a little cup . . . the musicians played up to the last, and then each drank from the cup. . . . Then some one came down and killed the animals, and perhaps arranged the drugged bodies, and when that was done earth was flung from above." India. As mountains go, Asia's toplofty Himalayas are young. Yale's Dr. Hellmut de Terra thinks they are even younger than is commonly supposed, that climatic changes caused by their vigorous upthrusts may have influenced the evolution of man and anthropoid apes. Geologist de Terra organized the Yale North...
...traces of early man, the party found crude scrapers and knives made of limestone and volcanic rock. First evidence of an Old Stone Age culture in northern India, these implements were unearthed in a Pleistocene swamp deposit 500,000 years old. Other notable finds included fossils of land tortoises big enough to dwarf the Galapagos giants, and of four-horned ruminants bigger than rhinoceroses but related to giraffes...
...Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, gay, hard-bitten speculator whose low opinion of high-priced stocks was an early Depression legend. Reports quickly spread that Ben Smith was buying this or selling that, but it was soon learned that Ben Smith had acquired a new interest on his junket. In India he had learned much about shellac, had become convinced that the outlook for shellac was bright indeed. Last week it was learned that Ben Smith thought it would be a fine idea if a shellac futures market were established in Manhattan, similar to the one in London...