Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balance? To balance the Budget the tax bill will have to raise well over a billion dollars in new revenue. Last week Washington began to fear that the present measure, for all its pricks and thorns, would not accomplish that purpose. Frank Kent, able observer for the Baltimore Sim, reported a "realization, growing stronger every day, that the tax bill, as passed by the House, falls so far short of balancing the Budget that even an approximate balance can't be claimed. . . . The bill will not pull the Treasury more than halfway to the top of the hole?much less...
...take all available steps to raise the present deflated wholesale level of commodity prices as speedily as possible to the level existing before the present deflation, and afterward to use all available means to maintain such wholesale commodity level of prices." Just how the Federal Reserve was to accomplish this large order nobody was sure...
Last week, in the wake of the Senate (where the vote had been 75-to-5), the House passed (363-to-13) a bill (H. R. 5315) to accomplish this purpose. Not only were injunctions by Federal courts to be severely limited but also the "yellow-dog" contract was to be legally exiled...
...haired old Nebraskan, Senator George William Norris, who is not in the habit of winning victories. Last fortnight he got through Congress his constitutional reform abolishing the "lame duck" session of Congress.? In Senator Norris' patience there is an Oriental quality which takes no heed of time to accomplish its purpose. For a full decade he worked to enact the "lame duck" amendment. His advocacy of anti-injunction labor legislation is of almost as long
...most dangerous, causing immediate death by destroying the nervous system, when used in great concentration; the fourth, sternutators or sneezers, which are effective by causing respiratory irritation, nausea and general depression. Diphenyelchlorasine is the most frequently used. The fifth class are vesicants such as mustard gas, which accomplish their work by inflaming and blistering the skin. Mustard gas which is a liquid is not balked by gas masks since it remains on the ground for two weeks causing injury to clothing and skin coming in contact with it. Gases in concentration from one part in 2,000 to one part...