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...November two of the most photographed beauties of Britain, Lady Louis Mountbatten and the Marchioness of Milford Haven, great & good friends of Edward of Wales, descended upon the Kingdom of Irak in search of desert thrills. White-chinned King Feisal gave a dinner in their honor, whereupon the noble ladies announced that they were going out into the Persian desert "with only the clothes we stand in and one change as well as a light tent and two sleeping bags." Added the Marchioness...
First Dates. Off the town of Basra on the coast of Irak, the S. S. Registan, flying the Union Jack, upped anchor at noon Sept. 15. When the Registan tied up at the Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, last week she had made the 10,000 mi. voyage in 25 days 19 hr., knocking a day off the previous record. By being first ship in port with 266,000 cases of new Arabian dates she added 1½? per Ib. to the value of her cargo, making the crates in her hold worth...
...Authorities dispute the exact location but most agree that "Eden" was somewhere in what is now Irak...
...Commercially the small, oily Kingdom of Irak completely eclipses the large, arid Land of Saud. Irak exports were $27,600,000 for 1930 and imports $15,000,000, as against insignificant exports and imports for Ibn Saud's Kingdom which makes most of its money on pilgrims. Lackadaisical Moslem tribes in Malaysia are becoming markedly more energetic as their pious women constantly return from Holy Mecca and give birth to fighting half-breeds--an "invisible export" of the Land of Saud...
...World War ended Hohenzollern dreams of an all-German Berlin-to-Bagdad Railway. But today one can go by rail to Bagdad from Berlin (or Paris) with only two breaks, the ferryboat ride across Turkey's Bosphorus and the bus ride over a 125-mi. stretch of uncompleted Irak railway...