Word: turkestan
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...richest source of radium in the world is believed to have been discovered in Turkestan by a Russian Government expedition. An American syndicate, which includes Dr. C. Everett Field, President of the Radium Research Corporation, and Washington B. Vanderlip, chronic Soviet concession hunter, with four New York philanthropists as "angels," is planning to produce and distribute radium from this field at cost price. Radium manufactured from carnotite deposits in Colorado costs from $85 to $110 a milligram, or approximately $50,000,000 a pound. This has been reduced in the last two years to $70 a milligram by the exploitation...
...Province under William and Mary. He married Katherina van Schaick of Albany, and their children's children have ever since been prominent in Manhattan. The Clarkson family treasures- two-handled silver bowls, engraved patch boxes, a creamer by William Gilbert, chairs by Duncan Phyfe, a carved door from Turkestan, etc.-are now exhibited...
...falls prey to clever German speakers who fill his punitive mind with theories of Teuton love and internationalism. The Y. M. C. A. is our only method of reaching such men; its wonderful effect has already been demonstrated by the results obtained among the Russian armies in Turkestan...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Across the Himalaya and Kwen Lun Mountains between Kashmir and Chinese Turkestan." Mr. Ellsworth Huntington. Geological Lecture Room...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Across the Himalaya and Kwen Lun Mountains between Kashmir and Chinese Turkestan," Mr. Ellsworth Huntington. Geological Lecture Room...