Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Esty tea campaign is a huge experiment to be conducted in a concentrated area bounded on the east by Buffalo, on the north by Detroit, on the west by middle Illinois and on the south by northern Ohio. Within those limits live 10,000,000 citizens who will be bombarded with billboards, window displays, radio programs and periodical advertisements in an effort to make them drink more tea. Next week the concentration point moves to Detroit, a fortnight later to Buffalo. With the closing weeks of June, the fact that tea is COOLING will be plugged. Year's appropriation...
...North Front there was little doubt that Italian forces had either been driven from Tembien Province north and west of Makale or had withdrawn voluntarily. Repeatedly Addis Ababa claimed that Makale had fallen but Italians held it strongly entrenched and Ras Seyoum, Ethiopia's hulking northern commander, was not fool enough to storm it. He had. however, a splendid present for his Emperor who was temporarily mudbound in Dessye-four white Italian prisoners, footsore and ragged but otherwise in a fine state of preservation. Instead of having them mutilated in the oldfangled Ethiopian" way, newfangled Haile Selassie, according...
...Japanese interviewers, on his way to Tientsin, that he hated 'the Britishers' more than they hated him, that they were 'the worst lot imaginable.' and that they were 'a curse to China.' Borodin preceded him to Peking. Dr. Sun had hardly reached the northern port when two of his old followers publicly repudiated his leadership because of his subservience to Moscow...
...victim, also an lowan, was Atlantic Northern, with 17 miles of track. Only farmer-owned railroad in the country, it was built in 1907, thrifty Danes of Elk Horn and Kimballton, Iowa putting up $350,000. Then came the truck which hauled cattle for less money, convinced farmers that even a farm-owned road was not worth keeping. Atlantic Northern had no bonds. Its property was appraised at $117,000. Its farmer-directorate will sell to anyone for 15% of that...
DESOLATE MARCHES-L. M. Nesbitt- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Account of an
engineering trip through northern Venezuela, by the author of
Hell-Hole of Creation (TIME, March 25), who was killed last July in
an airplane crash in Switzerland. ADVENTURES IN REPUTATION - Wilbur
Cortez Abbott-Harvard University Press ($2.50). Brief but penetrating
sketches of Macaulay, Lord Chesterfield, Queen Victoria, Cromwell et
al. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, 1914-1917- Charles Seymour-F