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...colporteurs. Distribution was 287,000 less than the previous year; contributions dropped ?33,047. Total number of languages and dialects in which the Bible is published was raised to 644 by the addition of German Romany (Gypsy), Australian Worrora, and twelve dialects of Africa, India and New Guinea...
...whence the gunboat Sacramento was despatched to Cocos Island with medical supplies, a powerful searchlight, equipment for a hazardous search of the island's trackless interior. From Cocos Island the Fleischmann yacht is bound for the Galapagos, Marquezas, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Samoa, Suva, Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Guinea, Timor, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Manila, Bangkok (and a visit to King Prajadhipok), and west via the Arabian Sea and the Suez Canal. In some of the islands Julius Fleischmann will act as a special representative of the U. S. Department of Commerce, drumming up trade and setting an example of usefulness...
...feather firms buy direct from Cape farms, smaller ones go to importers. Most other feathers are also imported. China furnishes plumage from swans and peacocks. Pheasant and partridge feathers, the only ones from wild birds which may be imported to the U. S., come from Great Britain. Guinea hen feathers are imported from Italy, barnyard feathers from Czechoslovakia. Thanks to Empress Eugenie, the industry is confident of a good demand until October...
...absurd," spluttered Sir John Simon, "to think that they were guinea pigs who left Lord Kylsant to do what he liked and merely drew their directors' fees...
Lord Kylsant insisted that the other directors were not guinea pigs, thus implying that if he was guilty, so were they. "If the court thinks the five gentlemen of the experience of my colleagues never asked any questions and knew nothing it is quite wrong...