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...British naval sloop Milford, Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans commanding, hove to in the bleak South Atlantic one day last week to ride out a 70 m.p.h. storm. Brave Admiral Evans could not have found a lonelier spot. Full 2,000 mi. northeast lay Bechuanaland where last September he did his duty as a Briton and an officer in banishing a South African chief who had punished a white man (TIME, Sept. 25 et seq.). Four thousand miles farther on was Britain. Three thousand miles to the south was the South Pole where he had been...
...story houses and paved streets dark and quiet. There was not a U. S. Marine in the place. Across the lake a pink plume of smoke rose from Mount Momotombo, most perfect of the volcanoes Sandino and his countrymen reverence as their national emblem. Farther north; 100 mi. through the jungle, was the peacetime residue of his followers, sleeping among the farms and mines of his El Cooperative Rio Coco settlement. When the car reached the main palace gate, it was stopped by a squad of native guardsmen. The little brown men waved their rifles, ordered everybody...
...lonely island of Tristan da Cunha, 2,000 mi. west of the Cape of Good Hope, the S.S. Atlantis put ashore last week Rev. Harold Wilde, 40, Anglican minister, and twelve tons of supplies. He will remain on the island for at least three years, caring for the souls of its 66 inhabitants who have had no minister for two years...
When the natural gas boom of 1930-31 subsided, Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. had become allied with the Morgan-Bonbright-Drexel utilities, had (through an affiliate) connected its 29,000-mi. Midwest system with the Texas Panhandle. That year (1931) it earned $22,331,000. The next year it formed a joint company with the Rockefellers to develop gas fields in north central Pennsylvania and western New York. But Columbia Gas had bank loans of $43,500,000, mostly the result of its expansion. The demand for natural gas had already fallen off when Columbia's President Philip Green...
...ability to make his facts march into battle and win, to whip up men to enthusiasm, to pick able associates and subordinates. Biographer Mathews estimates Dr. Mott has raised $300,000,000 for his causes. Though given to car and seasickness, he has traveled 1,700,000 mi., the equivalent of 68 times around the world. Woodrow Wilson wanted Dr. Mott to be his Minister to China. Princeton asked him to take its presidency. Yale Divinity School offered him a deanship. The Federal Council of Churches would have made him its secretary...