Word: calcutta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Distinguished Flying Cross (with Joseph Lebrix) in 1928 for a globe-circling adventure which took them from Paris to St. Louis (Africa), to Port Natal (Brazil), all over South America, thence to New Orleans, Washington, San Francisco, then by boat to Tokyo, by air to China, Indo-China, Calcutta, Karachi, Aleppo, Syria, Athens, Marseilles and home to Paris. On his recent flight home from Tsitsihar with Bellonte, Costes went by way of French Indo-China and broke his own record from Hanoi to Paris (4 days, 18 hours) by seven hours. He is now associated with Louis-Charles Breguet, designer...
...Nottingham, England, wants battery chargers; Lagos, Nigeria, needs canned fish and lump sugar. Other world wants noted in the latest bulletins: kitchen sinks at Bordeaux; machines to make banana flour at Lourengo Marquez. Portuguese East Africa; fertilizer grinders at Batavia; sneakers and sporting wear at Mukden; fountain pens at Calcutta; corsets at Berlin; oilcloth at Cairo...
...Cinderella, The Captive, The Goose Hangs High), cinemactor (Beau Geste, Sorrell and Son); at the State Hospital for the Insane in Norwalk, Calif., to which, suffering from paranoia, he had recently been removed from a private sanitarium where he had been committed by friends. He was born in Calcutta; engaged in the jute industry before going on the stage. Twenty-nine years ago an all-round athlete on Britain's Olympic team, he was awarded the prize for finest physique among the contestants of all nations...
...defense of the much maligned Harvard students, who in their efforts to protect an ungrateful public have brought down a flood of criticism upon themselves and Harvard, we wish to state that the cage is no Black Hole of Calcutta. Rather it is a depot where they await free transportation, furnished through the kindness of the Boston Police Department; their destination being the Station House where they await the arrival of their negligent parents. W. J. Henrich...
...rooms of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, Clive Street, Calcutta, meet the principal India jute associations. Last week the Calcutta jute men might well have discussed something else besides how much jute was arriving from the north, what price it was fetching on the Calcutta bazaar, how great were the exports of finished burlap from local mills. For Indian jute dealers were aware that last week in Manhattan had opened the New York Jute and Burlap Exchange, knew that 11/16 of the burlap exported from Calcutta goes to North America. Made from the fibrous stalk of a hemlock-like plant...