Word: java
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth only 40% of what it used to be worth in gold, while the guilder is still at full, sane value. Should Dutchmen Dance? Cold figures reveal that in 1928 England supplied 29% of all textiles bought by Queen Wilhelmina's dusky Indonesian subjects in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Soemba, Bali, Flores, Timor, Banka, Billiton, New Guinea, Madura, Lombok, the Riouw Lingga and Molukken Islands, with Japan and The Netherlands tied for second place at 26%. Since then Japan has seized the lion's share of 76%, while England and The Netherlands have been reduced to a mere...
...conjunction of the moon and the planet Jupiter seemed to indicate earth disturbances "in islands northeast of Australia" for July 11 and 12. Early last week he wrote letters to newspapers repeating this prophecy. When July 10 came round Krakatoa, a volcanic island with a dreadful record, between Java and Sumatra, suddenly started erupting at two-minute intervals, hurling lava spume a half-mile above the rim.* When he heard of this Prophet Greenspan cried: "Gosh, that's wonderful...
...receiver, asked to speak to Vice President Theodore Gazlay Miller. Fifty feet away in another office sat Vice President Miller. But the operator plugged President Gifford in on Dixon, Calif. There a short-wave radio transmitter amplified his voice some millions of times, "sprayed" it over the Pacific. At Java a Dutch station picked up the Gifford voice, blew it up another billion times, broadcast it on to Amsterdam. Under the North Sea it went by cable to London, then Rugby. Sprayed overseas again, it was picked up at Netcong, N. J., flashed back to Manhattan. One quarter-second after...
Last week Uiver left Amsterdam on a special Christmas flight to Java with three passengers, a crew of four, 54,000 pieces of mail. Between Cairo and Bagdad it encountered a violent thunderstorm, sent out an SOS. What happened to Uiver after that no man knows. When found, it was on its back, smashed to bits, burned to a crisp. Best guess was that Uiver had made an emergency landing at night, flipped over in a somersault and caught fire. Of 40 Douglases built to date, it was the first to crash...
Baltimore reporters who rarely get a chance to interview Great Men on their Johns Hopkins sickbeds greedily scribbled their notes. Senor Quezon went on to discuss his experiences with urologists: "When I left Manila, the doctors told me I could drink nothing intoxicating. When I reached Java I saw a doctor, and he said 'a glass of beer would not hurt.' So I drank beer from Java to Paris. In Paris another doctor said: 'You should not drink beer; wine is the only thing.' So I changed gratefully to white wine. Then a French specialist told me: 'You should drink...