Word: stevenson
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Rubber. In 1922 the British Empire passed the famed Stevenson Act which restricted the export of rubber from British colonies. Although British exports were checked, Dutch competition grew more intense, more rubber trees matured in British territory. In 1928 the restriction was removed. Since then, "tapping holidays" have failed because of the lack of cooperation from native growers...
...attempt to give U. S. horses a test that would show what they might do at Aintrée. Entered were three good English horses-St. Roy, Kilbairn, and Man-amber. Best of U. S. entries seemed to be Stephen Sanford's Mount Etna and Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson's Alligator, winner of many jumping races, including the Meadow Brook, Rose Tree challenge and the Maryland Hunt Cup. Round Peytona Brook and over five fences the bobbing horses-17 of them- swung in a half-circle, and down the straightaway past the enclosure. The course...
Because of the apparent value of their maggots in medicine, Department of Agriculture entomologists last week zealously bred two of the more than 30,000 kinds of known flies.* The entomologists were laboring at the instance of Dr. William Stevenson Baer of Baltimore. Dr. Baer, is clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at Johns Hopkins and orthopedic surgeon of a half-dozen Baltimore hospitals...
...manorial privileges.* When he died in 1700, his large estate had been divided in his will among his four sons, seven daughters. The Van Cortlandt fort was changed into a manor house, where the male head of the family continued to dwell in lordly seclusion until 1917 when James Stevenson Van Cortlandt, Civil War veteran, died without issue...
Lofty, lovely and fertile are the valleys of the Samoa Islands, which lie in the South Pacific more than halfway from Hawaii to New Zealand, in the latitude of Australia's northernmost tip. Some of the islands, including Upolu (on which Robert Louis Stevenson died), were once a German, have been since the War a New Zealand mandate. The eastern group-Tutuila, Aunuu, Ofu, Olosega, Tau and Rose-belong to the U. S. by an Anglo-German treaty of 1900. And in 1925 the U. S. annexed tiny Swain's Island. Total U. S. Samoa comprises...