Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known as Thomas Square. Mrs. Wilder's eldest son, G. P. Wilder, is a well known horticulturist, and has improved the Hawaiian mango. He and his wife have spent some time in Tahiti, investigating the origin of the Taro, the native food of the Pacific Islanders. On the West Coast of the Pacific in China and Japan the native food is rice, a grain. On the East side the American aborigines used maize or Indian corn, also a grain, whereas we find the Pacific Islanders .using Taro, a root, which seems indicative of an entirely distinct racial origin...
Senator Smoot: "They are not protests from foreign governments but from interested parties. . . . Take England. The West Riding Chamber of Commerce protests against the duty on wool. What a pity the increase of three cents a pound on scoured wool should be imposed on the riding breeches used by members of the West Riding Chamber of Commerce! No wonder Senator Harrison weeps over the situation...
Giving examples of colonial projects that deserved immediate assistance he mentioned a great drainage scheme in fever-ridden Sierra Leone, West Africa; works in Northern Rhodesia to accommodate the enormous copper developments there; railway work between East African Kenya Colony and the British protectorate, Uganda...
...things happened in South American aviation last week (see Map, p. 30): ¶ Pan-American Airways (U. S.) extended U. S. air mail service down the west coast from Mollendo, Peru, to Santiago, Chile, thus completing the longest U. S. air mail route?Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, to Santiago, 3,900 mi. Scheduled travel time from New York to Santiago is 8 days, against 21 days by boat. Postage per half-ounce is 70¢ from any point...
...SCADTA (Colombian-German) received Chilean permission to extend its lines from Colombia to Arica, Chile. Thus SCADTA will parallel part of the Pan-American west coast route...