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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in London orders were dispatched by His Majesty's Government to have over one million sand bags rushed from Egypt to be piled around and above the British Legation in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in case the Cheap Comedian should send bombing planes to blow Emperor Power of Trinity out of his palace. Punctually at 11:55 a. m. one day last week a pink silk veil covering the Emperor's box in Parliament was drawn aside and the shrewd, sharp-faced potentate addressed his people. He spoke in native dialect. Il Duce said afterward that...
...front cover) Astronomy deals with Earth, and with everything discernible beyond Earth. Its task is detecting, locating, describing and classifying countless millions of diverse objects-meteors, planets, comets, stars, shining streams of gas. dark clouds of cosmic debris, galaxies and super-galaxies glimmering across unimaginable gulfs of space. To avoid duplication of effort, to facilitate exchange of information and encourage cooperative research, astronomy's huge and complex task was years ago brought under the scrutiny and partial control of an international body. The International Astronomical Union, undisturbed by terrestrial wars and politics, held its first congress...
...Puerto Cooper, an estancia belonging to the English-Argentina Cattle Co., with a population of more than 7,000 and representing an investment of two million gold pesos...
...Puerto Casado. 3,000 inhabitants. A railroad connects the forest with the port. The estimated capital invested in Puerto Casado exceeds six million gold pesos. In the estancias there are 80,000 head of cattle...
...return to Austria next week, by which time the Government would have handed him or be about to hand him 63,000 acres in eight districts of Austria, real estate in Vienna which in normal times yielded some $50,000 a year, the Mannersdorf Dairies which sell 4½ million litres of milk annually, a list of other Habsburg property which grew daily, and a lump sum indemnity of $10,000,000 for destroyed or confiscated property which the Government was sorry not to be able to return...