Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, reedy, gentle, devoutly religious and pro-German is Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton in the West Riding of York, Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale York, Knight of the Garter, onetime Viceroy of India (TIME, May u, 1931, et ante), today Lord President of the Council and Government Leader in the House of Lords. In London, the abrupt decision of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Lord Halifax should go to visit Adolf Hitler last week came more & more to be regarded as a "humiliation" to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is not pro-German...
...August of last year Anderson was more inclined to believe that a new particle really existed than that the Bethe-Heitler theory was at rault. Further help for the theory came from the researches of Caltech's H. Victor Neher at San Antonio, Tex., and Madras, India. Cosmic ray particles are pulled toward the earth's poles by its magnetic field. Particles of high energy resist this pull, and so predominate in the region of the Equator. The latitude difference between Madras (13° N.) and San Antonio (29° N.) furnished valuable data on electrons...
...ARRINGTON S. J. ALFORO D. W. RAMSEY C. I. LANGDON West India Oil Co. Panama...
...thoroughly was Leopold III prepared to mount the throne, he had shown as Crown Prince, partly by serving as an active member of the Belgian Senate and partly by preparing for his father a series of comparative reports on colonial administration in the Belgian Congo, British India, The Netherlands Indies, the Philippines and French Indo-China. It was not simply that Leopold and Astrid "inspected" or showed "interest" on their travels. The Crown Prince everywhere took copious notes of the replies made to his questions, collected and studied reports as he went along, and on returning to Brussels closeted himself...
...BRRH!" Cooling Manhattan's Rivoli Theatre in 1925 cost $65,000 but the Rivoli got that back in the first three months. Carrier systems went into the ape-house of the New York Zoological Park, into the White House and the Senate chamber, into the Secretariat in Delhi, India, into the world's deepest gold mine in South Africa. By 1929 Carrier Engineering Corp. was doing an $8,000,000 a year business and retaining $672,000 as profit. Formed in 1930 was the present Carrier Corp., a holding company. Then came Depression...