Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crashing wave of affairs that brought an end to the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek (see col. 2) last week raised an echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government...
...prospect of this investigation, together with the wave of dissent against any debt ''adjustments," thoroughly alarmed President Hoover, who saw he had another losing Congressional fight on his hands. To his defense Secretary of the Treasury Mellon rallied with a ringing public statement in which he harped on "realities." He pointed out that Britain funded her War Debt for about 80% in gold dollars. With sterling at par her debt payment this year would be ?32,800,000 but now it would take ?48,100,000 for her to meet her obligations...
...engineers and electricians laid by their tools and materials last week and sadly filed out of the shipyard of John Brown & Co., Ltd. Behind them they left the largest ship's hull that man has ever riveted together - Britannia's unfinished bid to rule the Atlantic mercantile wave again. As a handful of watchmen took up their duties under the deserted hulk, deepest gloom settled over Clydebank. Less than 30% of all Clyde shipworkers remained at work...
...earthquake. Two hours later the Sikorsky was sitting on the shore of Lake Managua, her own radio humming with messages from local authorities. Next morning seven company planes were at the scene. Last September the P. A. A. station at Belize was wrecked by the hurricane and tidal wave which struck the town. In water up to their armpits the station crew salvaged their emergency equipment, worked all night setting it up, began functioning next morning-the only means of communication available to the Honduran Government...
...never been done before, a debate will take place early next month by radio, between Harvard and Oxford Universities. First debate between the two since 1925, it will be carried on by two Oxford men in London, two Harvard men in Manhattan, will be transmitted by short-wave and rebroadcast in each country. Subject to be heard, static permitting: "Resolved, that in the interests of world prosperity the War debts be cancelled." Time allotted: one hour. Announcements last week pointed out that the cost, nearly $35,000, will be borne by National Broadcasting Co., with British Broadcasting Corp. cooperating...