Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's action led to an immediate controversy: Had he the power under the law to delay cruiser construction once started? The cruiser bill authorized him to suspend any or all construction in the event of a new international limitation agreement, but no such agreement had been reached. The White House explained that President Hoover had acted under another clause of the bill which provided that if construction on any vessel was not undertaken in a specific year, "such construction may be undertaken in the next succeeding fiscal year...
...most drastic action taken by Moscow against Nanking, last week...
...starting the season with oldsters Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins in his lineup.† About the middle of the season, Manager Mack put in youngsters, made up much lost ground. This year he has had his youngsters-notably Jimmy Foxx, Gordon Cochrane, Al Simmons-in action all year, and with superlative pitching from Pitchers Grove and Walberg, and good pitching from Pitchers Earnshaw and Quinn (Quinn is another relic of spitball days) he is far and apparently safely in the lead. The New York Club, winner in 1926:27-28, is a good old wagon seemingly...
Remedy. Quick, decisive action came from the Federal Reserve System, from C. Breed Taylor, deputy governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Out of storm-clouded skies over Tampa dropped an airplane from Atlanta carrying one million dollars in cash. Nervous Tampa depositors, entering their banks, saw in tellers' cages great stacks of crisp, green, reassuring bills. Soon, by rail and motor, arrived an additional $4,000,000. "The banks," said Federal Reservist Taylor, "will have all the money they need...
Carrying objects, and perhaps eventually persons, by means of rockets is an engineering phase of physics in which Professor Goddard, 47, has been experimenting for 17 years. The principle of rocket motion is simple-action and reaction. Escaping gases act in one direction, the rocket body in the opposite. The ground is not necessary for the rocket gases to push against in order to propel the rocket. Nor is the air. Such action and reaction can take place in a vacuum, a fact which has driven Professor Goddard on his experiments. His objective...