Word: orients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert M. Marler, head of Canada's embassy to the orient, has been sent to China on a great diplomatic and commercial mission. It is entirely possible that, arising from his visit, Canada will sell 100,000,000 bushels of wheat...
...Behind the wheat deal is a great project, initiated by the Hon. H. H. Stevens, Canada's Minister of Trade & Commerce, for the granting of a $1,000,000,000 loan to China, designed to reinstate the values of silver all through the orient and finally to place China on her feet so completely that she will become a huge and profitable market for British, Canadian and American goods...
...airways. But if he wanders off the route in fog, storm or darkness, a pilot may find himself off the line of the beckoning signals just when he needs them most. Last week was brought forth a device by which the flyer, wherever he be, will be able to orient himself upon the nearest commercial broadcasting station...
...useless to point to numerous individual cases of men who have failed at Harvard because they did not orient themselves in its rather complex existence, and then to hope that this tea dance will eradicate that evil. But it should do something to create a more aimiable and friendly atmosphere for the occasional isolated and friendless freshman...
Last week, George Ross Robertson, professor of chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles, reported to the American Chemical Society that California financiers and scientists are developing the ancient Japanese industry, have built in California the only agar plant in the world outside of the Orient. Several years ago Japanese fishermen discovered some agar-bearing sea moss on the Los Angeles Harbor breakwater. Realizing that nostalgic Orientals in the U. S. love bird's-nest soup and knowing that agar-agar is an ingredient, they built a small factory, which Occidentals have taken over, moved, modernized...