Word: mays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this war's outbreak the "Faithful Ally of the British Government" came through again by contributing $400,000, this time to the British Air Ministry. Last week His Exalted Highness announced a further contribution-$45,000 monthly for the support of Hyderabad cavalry and infantry which may be called for service outside the State...
...putting down any nascent Arab rebellion. This was inconvenient to the Mufti. He soon disappeared. He was reported to have escaped to Bagdad, and rumor had it that he might go from Iraq to friendly Saudi Arabia and there strengthen his forces for new Arab uprisings. But whatever he may decide to do, the Mufti is not a man likely to declare for the Allies and is destined to remain, unless cornered, a hashish headache for the British...
...subscription. Since the summer of 1938 the organization created to manufacture Adolf Hitler's famed Volkswagon or "People's Car" has been collecting $2.00 per week from 180,000 German instalment buyers, promising they will all get delivery by 1942, but the People's Car Works may have been converted to make munitions. Thus far the Führer has not thought it worth-while to risk further overstraining of the German financial structure by trying to float a war loan...
...horses, Chinese medicinal ingredients (elk horn, saiga antelope horn, bears' paws). The huge province has never been properly integrated with China, and since about 1930, Russian influence has almost amounted to domination. Since economically Sinkiang is already virtually a Russian province, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, no lover of Communists, may well have seen the sense of making concessions there for the sake of active aid on his own front...
...Crown Prince, now that he is of age. will have a separate palace of his own for the first time, may possibly step out, but most people who know him well say that Senator Mihai is serious-minded to the point of boredom...