Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the $130,000,000 supply bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce and Labor...
...Deal devalued the inch. The House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures now has before it a bill to shorten the inch by .00005 millimetres. Since the U. S. inch is denned as 25.40005 millimetres and the British inch is defined as 25.39996 millimetres, the object is to establish uniformity by meeting the British halfway: that is, by making the inch an even 25.4 millimetres which would also key it in with the metric system...
...students did not need to look twice to identify the figure that stalked across their campus last week, wearing an enormous Chinese otter fur cap, a great Chinese otter coat and Chinese "alley cat" fur gloves. Only one man on any U. S. campus would dress like that. Exclaiming "Bill McGovern is back," Northwestern's delighted students rushed to register for his courses, its delighted professors whisked him off to the University Club to hear his newest adventures...
...brought back one thing he had not expected when he set out with his wife for Tokyo eight months ago-the story of a war. Arriving in Japan just in time for the excitement, Bill McGovern lost no time in becoming embroiled in it. He went first to Manchukuo, and while he was being toasted in champagne by Japanese officials in Hsinking, his wife-was arrested snapping pictures in the streets...
...McGoverns, finding Peiping too tame, frequented the fighting front. In one expedition they made with six newspaper correspondents, the five men and three women spent a sleepless night in one bed while dogs devouring Chinese corpses howled outside their hut. When he returned to Evanston, Bill McGovern predicted Japan would conquer and control all China within two years...