Word: india
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a U. S. newspaper. People replying to it received pamphlets and a catalogue of charms, soaps, talismans, oils, perfumes, astrological forecasts, other arcane devices and potions, all marketed by the "Great Britain Spiritualist Church (Negro)." Typical items: "GRENDELINE HOLY OIL. It is said the Sibber Tribes of India used Holy Oil in all important undertakings, believing this Oil would aid them in success. Prince Sibber never believed in failure. We offer you Grendeline Holy Oil. . . . Price per bottle $1.00." "JUNGLES FLOOR WASH . . . most important weapon for fighting Evil conditions...
...product could not last more than three months. Out of the running, they would leave U. S. pictures a free hand in the rich world market. Russia makes 95% of the pictures shown in its theatres, but all other countries are steady cinema customers of the U. S. India makes only 50% of its pictures, Japan only 35%, Italy, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Sweden and the South American countries all less than 10%. Playing this probability for perhaps more than it was worth, the Hollywood Reporter last week exulted: "U. S. Fix Stand To Capture 99% of World Market...
...newsrooms and agencies in Fleet Street. But most reporters, British and foreign alike, get their news direct from the mimeograph, write their copy in the great hundred-foot-square entrance hall of the Ministry, gas masks slung over their shoulders as they work, surrounded by thick mugs of bitter India...
When Robert Clive reached Madras one nightfall in 1744 after a 15-month voyage from London, he found India a "battered caravanserai." Its warring kinglets misruled some 90 distinct peoples whose languages were Babel. Its climate was hotter than its curry. Its diseases were "consumptions, fluxes, fevers, cholera, scurvy, berbers (a kind of paralysis), smallpox, gout, the stone, prickly heat, tetters or worms...
Clive rose from a penniless, friendless and unfriendly clerk of the East India Company to a military hero. Arcot and Plassey were his smashing victories. At Arcot, Clive's little army of 500 defeated an opposing army of 10,000. At Plassey, Clive's 3,200 men routed 50,000. William Pitt described him in Parliament as "the heaven-born general...