Word: maps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wang when they sought to use the general treaty for the renunciation of war (Kellogg Pact) (see p. 9) as a shield to cover up the high-handed fashion in which, last fortnight, they booted out of China the entire Russian personnel of the Chinese Eastern Railway (see map). The expulsion was clearly not "an act of war" in the technical military sense (though it was a deadly blow at the Far Eastern commerce of Russia). Consequently, argued the Chinese Foreign Office, last week, China did not violate the Kellogg Pact in ousting the Russians, but if Moscow should take...
...things happened in South American aviation last week (see Map, p. 30): ¶ Pan-American Airways (U. S.) extended U. S. air mail service down the west coast from Mollendo, Peru, to Santiago, Chile, thus completing the longest U. S. air mail route?Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, to Santiago, 3,900 mi. Scheduled travel time from New York to Santiago is 8 days, against 21 days by boat. Postage per half-ounce is 70¢ from any point...
Other famed ocean rescues: Harry G. Hawker and Commander Mackenzie- Grieve, picked up between Newfoundland and Scotland, May, 1919; Commander John Rodgers and crew, near the Hawaiian Islands, September, 1925 (see map, p. 12); Ruth Elder and George Haldeman, near the Azores, October, 1927; Commander Francesco de Pinedo and crew, between Newfoundland and the Azores...
...investigation she found that White Rock did not belong to Santa Catalina, nor to California, nor to the U. S. It was on no map...
...prove that, with expert manipulation, they can. Mr. Wells's audience would first be shown a primeval cave, views of the globe. North America, the Manhattan skyline, a skyscraper, then a view of one of the sky-scraper's windows, into it, across the room, to a map, where, with the aid of a pointer outlining Kingdom of Clavery and Republic of Agravia, two fictitious Balkan states, the story begins. It seems there is a certain precious metal called calcomite. The English control all the calcomite mines except those in Agravia. And the Agravians, out of a tender...