Word: czechoslovakia
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Other radium deposits exist in Czechoslovakia, Belgian Congo, Portugal, Australia, Colorado, Utah. The deposits in Czechoslovakia are almost depleted. Since the discovery of the rich Belgian Congo deposits in 1922, the U. S. production has almost ceased. Up to 1929, because of the great labor and expense involved, only 300 grams of radium had been produced, an insufficient supply for medical men and watchmakers...
Groping about in what dramatic Dr. Stephen Osusky of Czechoslovakia called "the most stifling fog of pessimism I have ever breathed," statesmen of the League of Nations found it desperately difficult last week to lay hold of any useful plan for dealing with present worldwide Depression...
...noted that Canada continues to have three kinds of tariffs: first and lowest, those collected on goods enjoying "British Preferential" tariff (i. e. imports from nearly all other parts of the Empire); second, "Intermediate Tariff" on imports from countries with which Canada has reciprocally favorable trade treaties, such as Czechoslovakia; third, "General Tariff," the highest, collected on imports from "other countries" such...
...Spain fortnight ago a bull killed a man with a sword (TIME, Sept. 22). In Czechoslovakia, last week, a corpse shot a man with a pistol. Explanation: In the village of Bruex one Wenzel Kokoschka grew tired of life, blew out his brains with one bullet from a seven-shot repeater, lay on his face unnoticed for several hours. In due time the corpse was discovered...
...Inspector Marcs is expected to die," cabled a Prague correspondent. "No such case has ever been on record before in Czechoslovakia...