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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving Buenos Aires Nov. 19 in a Panagra plane, the last issue of TIME I had received, Oct. 28 issue, was in hand for early reading. This was handled long before reaching Mendoza...
...TIME'S Letters (Oct. 28, Nov. 18) A. H. McFarlan has apparently been crabbing about your interesting and newsworthy remarks about the eminently respectable and respected British Royal family...
...fighting. There was some confusion about which side he was fighting for. Weeks ago he was supposed to have been bought by Italian gold. Few days later his men gave the first important reverses to the Italian forces in the desert region south of Mussa Ali (TIME, Oct. 28). Last week, seemingly a loyal Italian again, he suddenly appeared at the head of his tribesmen, wrecked and raided the small railway station of Lassarat, seized rifles and munitions, but prudently faded into the mountains without tearing up the tracks. ¶ Day after day Italian aviators continued to drop bombs...
...first projected, sly Quo Taichi, Chinese Minister to London, pulled wires to have the Earl of Lytton made chairman of the committee. British museum authorities forgot that he was the same Lord Lytton who sponsored the 1932 League of Nations report condemning the Japanese rape of Manchuria (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932). Though a whole commission went to Japan seeking Chinese treasures for the London show, Japan at first churlishly refused to send a single pot. Well satisfied, the Chinese Government not only lent the Manchu treasures but sent a corps of light-fingered experts to pack and unpack them...
...record-making toy demand. Leading items: hobbyhorses and miniature baby grand pianos. ¶ Allegheny Steel reported a 1935 (ten months) increase in alloy sales of 16% by volume, 18% by dollars. Allegheny specializes in "Allegheny and Ascoloy Metals," chromium nickel stainless steel alloys. ¶ In the year ended Oct. 31, 1935, U. S. railroads abandoned only 1,692 miles of track. They abandoned 2,514 miles in 1934. New trackage came to 88 miles in 1935; to 70 miles in 1934. ¶ United Carbon Co. opened three new carbon black plants, had two more under construction, planned to increase carbon...