Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor's forces. As soon as the Chamber had a look at the films, however, its tranquillity was restored. The aviators had maintained their Oriental dignity even without their pants. The fact that the same batch of reels pictured the destruction to the huge and plainly marked Nanking Central Hospital during the announced Japanese air raids last month did not seem to bother Manhattan's Japanese Chamber of Commerce...
Adjourning to the roof of the Central High School near the hospital, Photographer Menken again had a bombing raid drop very nearly in his lap. "This time they headed smack for the hospital. Suddenly the leader went into a power dive and pointed directly where I was standing. Two bombs dropped from the plane and I could hear them coming for the building with that terrible whishing sound that says, 'This is Arthur's, this is Arthur's!' I ducked behind a door just in time. My car, which was next to the gate, was punctured...
...China's pestilences that the U. S. Public Health Service has an outpost at Hong Kong, which last week reported the main foci of the epidemic as in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Hoihow, Macao. Amoy and Foochow were being scrutinized closely. The League of Nations has established a central observation post in Singapore, and last week the League's observers reported that refugees from the coast were spreading cholera inland. At the League of Nations' Geneva headquarters last week, its watchful Health Committee warned: "Repercussions which might become serious internationally as well as nationally...
...percent of all women are sterile. In Dallas last week, as part of the program of the Central Association of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, Dr. Morris Edward Davis of Chicago announced that he can make certain women, who are sterile because their ovaries produce no ova, capable of having babies by injecting them with serum taken from the blood of a pregnant mare. Dr. Davis' mare serum hormone in unascertained fashion reuses the ovaries to their natural functions. Said he last week: "We have positive proof that a single injection of this hormone is enough to provide full development and ovulation...
...remedy this accursed condition, funny Vitaminologist McCay proposed that the League of Nations begin a vitamin registry to identify vitamins by numbers. Then "when a new vitamin is to be postulated, the discoverer will need only to address a postcard to the central agency. Thus if a specific growth factor is discovered for moose by some nutrition student working in northern Ontario, he will only need address a request to the central agency. By return mail he will be assigned some number such as 1,572, and this will be recorded thenceforth. As specific properties of this number are developed...