Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last time the German juggernaut rolled, it went through Luxembourg, the tiny (999 sq. mi.) independent duchy tucked in between Belgium and France on the German border. Last week Luxembourg's ruler, Grand Duchess Charlotte, 43, was at home, with Europe shaking around her. At the White House as weekend guests (she has no Washington embassy) arrived her husband, sporting Prince Consort Felix, and their son. Prince Jean, 19. Besides wild boars, a favorite hobby of Prince Felix is the big Luxembourg radio station (strongest west of Moscow) and which, should the juggernaut roll again, would surely be extracted...
Washington is a 9 o'clock town. Lights that burn late mean not hilarity, but grim business. Last week significant night lights glowed in the two huge, forbidding grey piles that flank the trim beauty of the White House-the Treasury on the East, the State Department on the West...
...money, the certain crashing raid by foreign security holders on the "thin" market of the New York Stock Exchange. Hanes, a positive, bluff, solid man, oddly inconsistent with the cold background of his Treasury office-icy-eyed portraits of former Secretaries, ancient shiny red-plush drapes, a cool white-marble mantel-arrived every morning last week at 7 a.m. (noon in London) to telephone his boss, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in Finland, Sweden, Norway; to telephone the men in London who watch the English end of the tripartite monetary agreement. Mr. Hanes had $2,000,000,000 worth of stabilization...
...record score at New Haven, 91 2-3 to 43 1-3. The track team beat Holy Cross, Northeastern and Dartmouth and placed second by a fraction of a point in the Heptagonal Meet, but lost out when it combined with Yale to meet an Oxford-Cambridge squad at White City, England, on July...
...melanin content increased in the subjects studied in the following order: Japanese, Hindu, mulatto and Negro," said the scientists. "Our studies do not support the theories that the pigmentation of the skin in the dark races is caused by pigments which are not found in the white race...