Word: rangoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the solid gold top of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon was shaken down by an earthquake (TIME, May 19, 1930), Thomas Cook & Sons may well have mourned. But last week pious Burmese crowned their wonder of the world again with gold. The completed job cost $300,000, was rushed through one year and three weeks after the quake. For good measure and added travelers' delight, diamonds were set into 2,500-year-old Shwe Dagon's new crown...
Nearly 2,000 people were injured, more than 200 killed in India last week as a result of fierce riots in the north (Peshawar), east (Rangoon and Dacca), west (Bombay), and in the centre (Lucknow...
...thus peaceful was the rioting in Rangoon between Burmese and Indian workers (the latter Mohammedan) over a local issue unrelated to St. Gandhi's movement. The fact that British police fired on and killed Rangoon Mohammedans, however, inflamed other Mohammedans, and soon 5,000 of the faith were rioting furiously in support of St. Gandhi at Bombay...
Flying a 90 h. p. Gipsy-Moth which had seen considerable taxi-service in England, Miss Johnson covered more than half the 11,500-mi. route well ahead of Hinkler's schedule before mishap overtook her at Rangoon. Burma. There she mistook the landing field and taxied into a ditch. After two days lost in making repairs the girl pushed on through driving rains to Bangkok, 3,000 miles and four days from her goal. Yet perhaps the worst of the journey lay ahead of her: the perilous passage over Siam jungle and Java swamp, the 700-mi. water jump...
Meanwhile in Poona, southeast of Bombay, 100 volunteers planned to emulate Saint Gandhi, make a 100-mile march-to-the-sea. In Calcutta, Mayor J. M. Sen Gupta, garlanded, his forehead daubed with vermilion in, honor of a Hindu festival, embarked for Rangoon to answer British charges that he had encouraged Civil Disobedience...