Word: indus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long-nosed Viceroy Lord Willingdon took time off from his troubles with Indian Nationalists last week to go to Sukkur on the Indus, in northwestern India. There on a platform glittering with native princes and staff officers, he threw a switch and opened the flood gates of the biggest irrigation project in the world. With British talent for resonant names it is known as the Lloyd Barrage...
Patiently the statesmen explained that this was no time for a war with China. Japan's business and finances were in parlous state. Japan's second-biggest indus-try is clothing China and providing her with manufactured articles. Chinese troops cannot fight a modern army, but China has one terrible weapon, the boycott. An effective boycott of Japanese goods would be catastrophe. This reasoning impressed elderly Japanese generals, but not the younger officers. They waited for a 301st Incident. They got it with the execution of Captain Shintaro Nakamura by Manchurian troops (TIME, Sept. 28). Start officers kicked over...
Unfortunately, no retraction can undo the incalculable harm, resulting from an error of this sort- but perhaps a few articles in your mag azine concerning the fact that Camden has more men working today in her 237 diversified indus trial plants than were working in those same plants in 1928, might serve to demonstrate to your readers that this city has some very credit able features...
...manufacturers would, by virtue of sheer strength, succeed the Institute as the influence to stabilize prices and regulate expansion of the industry. Armed with both Hearst and Rothermere contracts, the richest in the world, President James Henry Gundy of C. P. & P. loomed as logical Moses to lead the indus-try from its factional wilderness. Abitibi Power & Paper Co. and St. Lawrence Corp. would be possible allies of C. P. & P. in such a union. International Paper & Power Corp. might head another group; or-hav- ing lost the Hearstpaper business after 1933-might turn wholly to its major interest, Power...
Meantime, disorder continued to bubble down the Indus, whose banks became the scenes of Hindu v. Moslem rioting. At Sukkur casualties were: 13 Hindus killed, 71 wounded; one Moslem killed, 33 wounded. In the revenue districts of Rohri and Ghotki, looting, kidnaping, murder were reported...