Word: counteractions
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...learn of conditions in the trenches it is not possible to get medical assistance to anyone in time to prevent fatal results. It is necessary to immediately cauterize the wounds in the body or head or to amputate the limbs as there seems to be no antidote that will counteract the poison...
...sugar industry is the sugar beet industry in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, Michigan and California. Sugar beets require an immense amount of hand labor. Therefore beet sugar is more expensive to make than cane sugar. Thirty-seven years ago the beet sugar industry learned how to counteract this disadvantage when it induced Nelson Dingley Jr. of the Ways & Means Committee to give it a tariff...
...boat checking this crew has taken a leaf from the manufacturers of multi-cylinder automobiles. They believe that if there is always at least one oar in the water delivering power, the boat won't have a chance to check--hence the crew's name. "Perpetual Commotion." Likewise, to counteract the ill effects of individual oarsmen rolling out, all eight men loan out both at the catch and the recovery, thereby assuring a perfect set-up, port balancing starbeard...
...this is, of course, merely the first step in a new diplomatic policy which will aim to counteract the friendliness for the Soviet which has sprung up recently. It will probably not be eventually successful because the essential Japanese demand which cannot be disguised--a free hand in the Far East--is not acceptable to the powers. It may, however, have the effect of postponing the Russo-Japanese war which is now accepted as inevitable, while the Japanese try to change the international balance which is now so heavily weighted against them. NEMO...
Ever since Benito Mussolini married off a sloe-eyed daughter of Italian King Vittorio-Emanuele III to earnest Tsar Boris of Bulgaria, France and her "Little Entente" Allies have been working to counteract Il Duce's supposed influence on the Bulgarian Court. Both Little Entente kings-Carol of Rumania and Alexander of Jugoslavia-have been courting Boris. A "Three-Kings Conference" of Boris, Carol and Alexander is in prospect at Sofia on Jan. 31, the day after Boris's next birthday. Last week the Tsar of the Bulgars took his Italian-born Tsaritsa to Jugoslavia to break...