Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Transcontinental & Western Air plane crash in which Nation-famed Knute Kenneth Rockne and seven others were killed? (TIME, Apr. 6). The plane, a trimotored Fokker, tumbled out of the low clouds near Bazaar, Kan., with its right wing fluttering after it. It buried its nose deep into the stony soil of flint hills. Only the twisted steel and fabric-or what was left of it by souvenir-hunters-could give further testimony. Designer Anthony Hermann Gerhard Fokker flew from Los Angeles to inspect the wreckage for himself. Fiercely proud of his creation, he was certain there was no structural failure...
Java of course is the chief Dutch possession, and Batavia is the capital of Vice-regal Governor General Jonkheer A. C. De Graeff (he recently visited the U. S. unnoticed). But on the Pittsburgh's route Sumatra came before Java and the Davises first landed on Dutch soil at the port for Medan...
Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Goodyear and United States Rubber?why are their major rubber plantations in Brazil, Liberia and the Dutch East Indies, rather than on U. S. colonial soil? Last week Mr. Davis found, presumably, the answer. The Dutch permit their natives to lease land to exploiters...
...Conservative Party cannot participate in any further negotiations on Indian soil, but will participate if another round table conference be held in London...
...best to frustrate any attempt on the Vagabond's part to lead the Harvard man to new intellectual heights. Two days ago he pointed out a particularly interesting lecture, which should have been of interest to all Vagabondia. His well chosen words must have fallen on fertile soil, for at the stroke of eleven o'clock a car filled with would-be auditors in quest of knowledge roared up Plympton Street toward the Yard. The car reached Massachusetts Avenue, turned left, the driver looking for a place to park. Obviously, it being eleven o'clock in the morning, there...