Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared last week that he must guarantee the debts of thoroughly insolvent Newfoundland. As Newfoundland bonds bounded up on the news, Britain's famed Manchester Guardian, its excited editors ignoring Newfoundland's non-dominion status, asked: "Is this claim to suppress the Dominion constitution in order to avoid default on external debt payments to be confined to Newfoundland? If so, on what peculiar theory of Empire relationships is the claim based? Are the financial arguments strong enough to justify such interference? In a word, is no lesser measure possible which would equally well secure the necessary reforms...
...simple questions to its members: Will they agree to any serious reduction of armaments and will they submit to any control? [see p. 16]. . . . Such an answer would be of decisive importance and would sound the death knell of the Conference and therefore perhaps Geneva will endeavor to avoid...
Miss Phoebe M. Knappen (U. S. Biological Survey) reported that when the Washington Monument was new, hundreds of birds dashed themselves to death against it at night. In time they learned to avoid it and all went well until two years ago when floodlights were trained on its sides. Since then at least 618 dead birds of some 50 species have been picked up at the monument's base...
...question of a new Bank Act came up in Parliament as usual last spring, the danger of the banks' situation was suddenly plain. From the Western prairies rose furious anti-banker howls for a new system, for lower interest rates, for "nationalization of credit." Parliament was impressed. To avoid financial confusion when Canada could least afford it, Conservative Premier Bennett got the Parliament to extend bank charters for one year during which he promised to call a commission to study Canada's banking, currency and coinage...
...repair a fractured skull. Removal of an appendix costs $150 to $250 in some Western communities, from $250 to $1,000 in Eastern cities. Office call charges average $2. But some doctors take as little as 50?. some as high as $15. Doctors, to avoid competition, look to their county medical societies to set fee schedules. But Publisher Lansing Chapman of Medical Economics found through a survey of 1,000 societies that "by far the majority of medical societies have no fee schedule...