Word: penang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dutch sailor, went into an Amsterdam bank at the age of 16 and fell in love with figures, quit after six years because banking was too slow a way up in the world. He went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal Dutch Co. for the Working of Petroleum Wells...
Died. Prince Svasti, 70, onetime Siamese Minister of Justice, later Lord Chief Justice, son of the late King Mongkut, brother of the late King Chulalongkorn, father-in-law of ex-King Prajadhipok; in Penang, Straits Settlements...
...hours behind the record. Eagerly they headed on, past Akyab, out over the Bay of Bengal. . . . When, as the hours ticked by, there came no sign of the plane, no message from its radio, the Royal Air Force started one of the greatest searches in aviation history. Up from Penang roared 37 planes to scour Sir Charles's route. Through the steaming jungle all along the Malay coast natives ran forth with flares flickering in the dark. But as the days passed it became more & more likely that Sir Charles, who had safely pioneered almost every dangerous airway...
...from lush Penang Island in the Straits Settlements last week climbed a four-motored Imperial Airways airplane. For some 650 miles it sped across the Gulf of Siam to Saigon in French Indo-China, then 350 miles on to Tourane, finally another 550 miles straight across the South China Sea to Hong Kong. Thus, in the first of six trial flights, Imperial Airways Ltd. sprouted a new branch from its main stem between London and Australia. Carrying passengers and mail, the new service will run twice a week, is significant because it brings the trans-Asian airline within 80 miles...
...year-old Priwall, racing for the first time. He made Cape Horn in a fast 30 days. On the leg north he did not know that the Pamir had reached Land's End in the excellent time of 92 days. Into Falmouth Harbor last week staggered the Penang which had left Australia in late January. Its time was 122 days. Close behind it came the Parma, having finished the 15,000 mi. in the amazing time of 83 days, fair time even for a clipper. Said Villiers, "We had a good ship, a good captain-one of the best...