Word: sq
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rightist Spain: 126,583 sq...
Leftist Spain: 70,024 sq...
Rightist Gain: 9,503 sq...
...Alfonso XIII, then King of Spain, awarded 10,000 sq. mi. to Honduras as umpire in that country's land squabble with Nicaragua. During the past two years both countries have been engaged in a battle of postage stamps bearing maps showing the disputed territory as part of their own domain. Last week the U. S. Government found Nicaraguan and Honduran passions running so high that with Costa Rica and Venezuela it offered its "good offices" to mediate. This offer both little states promptly accepted, slimming chances of any clash. Onetime Nicaraguan President José Maria Moncada denied...
...Rudolf Diesel in 1892 only about 40 have been installed, in U. S, busses and those for scarcely more than a year. Because Diesel engines burn fuel oil instead of gasoline, because the oil is ignited not by electric sparks but by high compression (around 500 Ib. per sq. in.) which raises the temperature of air in the cylinder to about 1,000° F., they are: 1) cheap to operate. 2) heavy in order to withstand high pressure, 3) expensive to construct...