Word: eurasia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are only two airlines in the world which cancel flights when the weather is too good. They are both in China-Eurasia Aviation Corp. (partly German-owned) and China National Aviation Corp. (partly owned by Pan American Airways)-and the reason for their idiosyncrasy is that their courses lie over Japanese-held territory, and Japanese aviators like to shoot down any Chinese plane in sight, civil or military. Each line has had one plane shot down, several wrecked on the ground, many chased by the Japanese. Fourteen passengers have been killed...
...transportation in free China-oxcart, ass, camel, over miserable roads-are unbearably slow, and because trucks so often break down in Chinese hands, these lines are so heavily booked that some passengers have to wait a month for a seat. The planes are always filled to maximum capacity. Eurasia flies Junkers, C. N. A. C. flies Douglases, and both use German Telefunken wireless compasses and direction-finders-among the best in the world...
Unfortunately for the Japanese, Dr. Sun did not fly in Pilot Woods's plane. Instead he shifted his reservation to Eurasia Aviation Corp. (45% German-owned) and flew in safety to Hankow, the Chinese capital against which Japan's forces uneventfully continued their offensive (TIME...
...Japanese Army spokesman at Shanghai was asked by correspondents what transport planes in China could do to keep from being "mistakenly attacked" in future. Said he sagely: "The best thing they can do is not to be in the air!" Later the spokesman gave the part-German Eurasia line on which Dr. Sun flew safely last week priceless advertising by implying that its planes will continue immune. At once China National Aviation Corp. canceled all flights. Its officials said it might resume business with departures at "secret hours" if customers wanted to buy tickets on that basis...
...there until the sub-crust melts. The continental masses sink deeper into this dense, viscous pool, which in turn moves sideways, bulging and rifting ocean floors, allowing heat to escape. Then the cycle begins again. Wegener of Germany proposed that two great continents, Gondwanaland in the Southern Hemisphere and Eurasia in the Northern, cracked and sundered, slid like cakes of ice over the hot sub-crustal pool to form the present continents. Evidence: the coastlines of Western Europe and Africa and those of Eastern, North and South America almost fit like jigsaw puzzle pieces; similar fossils on the two sides...