Word: turkishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest order this year!" grinned Curtiss Vice President T. P. Wright. ''The Hawks we are sending to China will be single seaters having the same type of nine-cylinder engine being used by Col. Lindbergh on his present flight. . . . We sold 24 Hawks to the Turkish Government last fall and several are in service in South America...
...promptly lubricated raw nerves by offering U. S. tycoons a half interest in Anglo-Persian's share of the War spoils of the old Turkish Petroleum Co. Oil men recognized this as the end of Britain's closed door oil policy in the Near East...
...definition clearly implies that the existence of the state is incompatible with the conciliation of that class warfare; an inference which he did not neglect to elaborate. Mr. Hitler's state is simply the instrument of suppression serving the ends of a reactionary and racially religious class. The Turkish government, which has summarily placed a hundred communists in jail, and the estimable chauvinists of Georgia, who have imprisoned an ardent youth for his possession of communist literature, serve with an efficiency equal to Mr. Hitler's the interests of the classes which enthroned them...
Chief Russell was glad to report that when Turkey's Dictator Kemal Pasha announced last December that he was joining the world fight on illicit opium, Kemal meant what he said. Three huge Turkish opium factories have been closed. By the Ghazi's orders poppy cultivation has been "limited to the actual needs of medicine and science...
Most deplorable to Chief Russell is the government of Little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. Poppies and roses grow well in Bulgaria. Since the forcible closing of the Turkish factories the centre of the illegal drug traffic has moved from Istanbul to Sofia. Nine narcotic factories are now operating in Bulgaria. Largest and most important is Balkans Products Co., Ltd., which opened a new factory at Radomir in October. In two months Balkans Products produced a "snow" storm of 1,500 kilograms-one and one-half tons-of heroin, all of which, according to Chief Russell, was smuggled into France...