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Andy Bahr is a tough, squat, nut-brown little Laplander who is reputed to know more about reindeer than any man in the world. He was past 60 and settled down to running a Seattle apartment house when Carl Joys Lomen, "Alaskan Reindeer King," went to him one day in 1929 with a problem. On the barren rim of the Arctic Ocean in northernmost Canada some thousands of Eskimos were in a sorry fix. Banging away with white men's guns, they had killed off or scared away most of the caribou and walrus on which they lived. Unless...
Aside from the stubborn Dutchmen, the highest hurdle in restriction's path was native production. The nut-brown native taps when he pleases, and tales of tall plans are just so much English or Dutch to him. The conference mounted this hurdle by restricting not actual production but exports. The 1934 limit is set at 1,019,000 tons but under the guidance of an international committee the limit will rise about 25% by 1938. First year quotas (in tons): Malaya-504,000; Dutch East Indies-352,000; Ceylon-77,000; Sarawak-24,000; Siam-15,000; North Borneo...
...Royal Indian Navy is a paper promise to His Majesty's nut-brown subjects, but from the potent Imperial East Indies Station went Vice-Admiral Dunbar-Nasmith who won his Victoria Cross by torpedoing and sinking from his submarine Ell precisely eleven Turkish ships...
...nut-brown little Siamese in a white cap, hunched in the stern of a fragile racing shell on the Thames, barking shrill orders at eight lusty Britons who thrashed the grimy water with long oars, was the cynosure of 500,000 pairs of eyes for a few minutes one afternoon last week. He, Prince Komarakul-Na-Nagara, was coxswain of the Oxford varsity crew and for most of the first quarter of the race, his men held the lead he had shot them away to a few strokes after the start. But Cambridge pulled ahead at the mile and stayed...
...small, nut-brown Mahatma Gandhi came last week that slightly florid human mountain, the House of Commons. In effect a special meeting of the House convened around him, using for this purpose the historic Grand Committee Room. Barefoot and barelegged as usual...