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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . Let me say that the statements concerning five million Bibles distributed in China referred to in two letters on p. 4 of your issue of July 21, 1930, contain two errors unnoticed by the the correspondents...
...this service and backed up by a squadron of 22 auxiliary flying ships; a careful organization was developed and scattered through 17 countries to carry the work of the air line forward; most of this $4,000,000 is represented in actual physical assets; considerably less than a million was spent in development work whose actual expenditure could perhaps not be shown in flying equipment, airport radio stations, or other physical details...
...system which with its operating affiliations in South America aggregated well over 10,000 miles of airways in 18 countries; that more than 8,000 passengers were carried in NYRBA planes without a single injury to anyone and four days prior to the consolidation agreement NYRBA completed its first million miles of scheduled flying with one of the highest rated efficiencies of any air line in the world...
Pounding a table with his clawlike left hand he thundered denunciations against "Tyrant" and "Traitor" Leguia, accused him of selling the country's petroleum reserves to foreign capitalists, raising the national debt from 80 to 600 million soles (i sole?4Oj/). Bluntly he referred to the President's Civil Guards as "Jackals" and "Terroristic Instruments...
...Gulf. President Hoover wanted him to find out how the $325,000,000 flood control program was progressing, how navigational improvements along the stream were getting on, what could be done to speed up the work as an aid to unemployment. To date 20,000 men have put 70 million cubic yards of dirt into new levees at a cost of $90,000,000-and the project is not one-sixth completed. With Secretary Hurley went Mayor Generals Lytle Brown, Chief of Engineers, and Thomas Q. Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp. The War Secretary would begin...