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...France last week when she nosed past Havre breakwater. These apples, valued at $100,000, stayed on the Ile de France. France had just slapped an embargo on all "fresh fruits, live plants or parts of live plants from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan." The embargo was officially based on the discovery of San José scale, an infectious fruit scab, on recent shipments of apples and pears from the U. S. Plant-exporting China and Japan were too busy with their own troubles to protest. The fruitful Dominions took it quietly. But roars of protest...
...farewell to the Nobel Laureate of the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. Accompanied by Mrs. Compton and their elder son Arthur Alan, he will start on a 20,000-mi. tour of Pacific mountain tops. To the tops of mountains in Panama, Peru, New Zealand, Hawaii and Alaska he will lug a 250-lb. machine to study the characteristics of the puzzling cosmic rays which Dr. Millikan has made his own. The study will supplement similar studies which Dr. Compton made in the Rocky Mountains last summer, in the Alps last October...
Other speakers (to the never more than half full Congress hall) were those of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Jugoslavia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Turkey, Switzerland, Uruguay...
...list of countries from which students have come to Harvard this year is as follows: Abyssinia, Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Greece, Guatemala, Hawaii, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, India, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Philippine Islands, Poland, Porto Rico, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, and Venezuela...
...years immediately preceding the present depression. Between 1925 and 1929, there were thirty-three general revisions or substantial tariff changes, nearly all increases, among the twenty-six countries of Europe, and seventeen among the twenty republics of Latin America. In 1927 and 1928 Australia, Canada, and New Zealand made broad tariff revisions, generally upward. Several Asiatic countries achieved the right to make their own tariffs and promptly released their duties--Siam in 1927, China and Persia in 1928. When prosperity collapsed, the increase in duties continued at an accelerated rate...