Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur B. Emmons will speak in the Institute of Geographical Exploration at 4 o'clock this afternoon on "The Mountain Barrier Between India and China." Emmons crossed these mountains on foot and by mule last summer, studying the geography and the tribal customs of the natives. He also took pictures with which he will illustrate his lecture...
Informed by French rustics that he could not get to Andorra through the mountain roads, buried 20 feet under snow drifts, he snorted: "If I had my null der car which cost $32,000 I'd go through these roads like a tank...
...Chiang, while remaining Generalissimo, resigned as Premier in favor of his brother-in-law Dr. H. H. Kung, only recently returned from a European shopping tour for war supplies (TIME, Aug. 30). Premier Kung, a descendant of China's greatest sage Confucius (whose memorial tablet on the Classical Mountain Taishan was threatened by Japanese last week) is a Chinese conservative. However, his first act as Premier was to order freed from Chinese jails virtually all prisoners, and the majority of these happened to be Communists. Dispatches reported Chinese Communist leaders pressing Premier Kung and Generalissimo Chiang to "give weapons...
...anything about the origins of Indian corn. Corn now seems to him the basis of North American civilization. Before he dies he wants to plot out and at least partially complete a vast photographic mural of America, beginning with astronomical photographs of the heavens, indented lower down with mountain ranges, cities, factories, then breaking up into smaller scenes of streets, homes, offices, hospitals, with a winding decoration composed of the tasseled. growing corn...
...such information as they can get from signboards, gasoline station attendants, road maps, Chamber of Commerce handouts. They race past the biggest factories on earth, rarely pausing to wonder what is made in them. They look out across scenery unparalleled, but only occasionally know the names of the mountain peaks or yawning canyons that take their breath away. They sail through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance at the rear-view mirror...