Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other points covered by the Führer included : 1) warning Western nations not to interfere in "matters concerning us alone" [i.e., pogroms]; 2) denouncing the Jews and Bolshevism; 3) claiming no one is persecuted for purely religious beliefs in Germany; 4) hailing the Rebel successes in Spain as a "valiant defeat of the newest universal attempt to destroy the European cultured world"; 5) notifying the U. S. to keep her hands off German trade with South America...
Precariously perched between the towering Andes and the Pacific, the elongated Republic of Chile runs like a rind along the western coast of South America from the tropics to Cape Horn. Averaging only about 125 miles in width, the country is so long (2,661 miles) that, if draped across Europe, it would stretch from Moscow to Madrid. To compensate for its unwieldy shape, nature has given it a variety of riches: underneath its parched yellow soil in the desolate northern region lie the world's most valuable deposits of nitrate and the second largest known deposits of copper...
...return for these riches, mountainous Chile pays a steep price. Situated at one end of the great Pacific earthquake arc* that sweeps around from Borneo and the Philippines, through Japan, Alaska, the U. S. Pacific Coast and down through central and western South America to the Cape, Chile shares honors with Japan as the shakiest region on earth. Of 9,000 big & little quakes & tremors recorded every year, fully 21% occur in Chile. Seismic observers estimate that during the past three centuries Chile has had on the average a serious quake every three years. Last week she was hit again...
...Kreiner Sextet; Victor: 2 sides). Oklahoma-born Composer Harris, once the enfant terrible of the Western prairies, here writes music with a cultivated British accent...
...John Blair was laid in his grave, a 15-year-old stripling named Hearn Waters Streat went to work for Blair & Co. as a runner. While Blair & Co. built up a reputation as the first firm to make equipment trust certificates a safe investment, and as co-financiers of Western Pacific, Missouri Pacific and many a big industrial concern like Texas Co., genial Hearn Streat moved up through the ranks. He became a junior partner in 1920, same year Blair absorbed William Salomon & Co. In 1929, when Blair merged with the security affiliate of Bank of America (Manhattan...