Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Donald's tribute to the American use of the English tongue is rather breath-taking. Many people have been quoted to the effect that Boston is the American home of correct English. But when the former editor of the London Daily Chronicle states that America as a whole is the stronghold of the English tongue and should therefore initiate measures for its preservation, the compliment elicits only an expression of blank dismay...
...perfectly balanced according to pre-existent information did not provide proper nourishment in some cases arid even brought on certain "; deficiency "; diseases (e. g., scurvy, beriberi, pellagra). There are three major vitamins (Fat-soluble A, Water-soluble B, Water-soluble C), and all three must be present in any correct diet. Plenty of milk and oranges or tomatoes will furnish all of them. But they are not units of measurement and have in no way abolished the necessity for a balance of other elements in the food, nor for an adequate total of energy units...
...Wall Street is correct in the statement that Henry Ford is going into the oil business, the confusion and consternation caused thereby will be enormous. Mr. Ford, it seems, intends to establish gas stations which will sell gasoline exclusively to Ford owners at sixteen cents a gallon. The fearful consequences to the automobile, oil and autobody industries are easily apparent. The demands for Fords will be increased to such an extent that the Ford plant will probably be distended to the bursting point in order to satisfy...
...Obregon Government is trying to correct this. It has under way an ambitious program for encouraging music. It subsidizes music schools, composers, orchestras, opera companies. It is determined to demonstrate to Mexicans that Mexicans, too, may have some merit...
News from Japan was extremely contradictory and the most reliable information can be taken as only approximately correct...