Word: direct
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be available for war uses. If we do not, the Government will buy away labor and the products of labor from us with the credits which the banks will furnish, and finally through the advance in prices our civilian demand for goods and labor will be reduced. The direct method of economy is clearly the better...
...Steeg added, "not to shut themselves up in that house, but to establish confident and cordial relations with our students and our professors, who already extend to them a welcoming hand. You will receive with the same affection those of our students who on the morrow of victory will direct their steps toward your universities...
...higher rate of interest be issued prior to the termination of the war with Germany, these 3 1/2 percent. bonds will be convertible into bonds bearing such higher rate. This provision practically protects the holder of these Liberty Bonds against the depreciation of his securities. The bonds are the direct obligation to pay of the United States government whose good faith is pledged to their payment...
...other service in the army is a constant puzzle to most laymen and to many prospective military men. This confusion is due to at least two causes. The chief cause is doubtless the fact that though there has long been a quartermaster corps which is a staff organization without direct connection with the line, a large number of line officers have been detailed as quartermasters. Another cause is probably the recent consolidation of three staff organizations into one, now called the quartermaster corps; viz, the subsistence, the pay, and the quartermaster departments...
...direct result of the informal conferences of the French Commission with the War Department, the American Government has determined to take over in easy instalments a large part of the motor ambulance and transport service of the French army, thus relieving many hundred French and at the same time training a large and indispensable corps of men for service with the American army when it arrives at the front. About one hundred sections of 36 men each--a total of 3,600 men--are to be sent to France as soon as they can be trained, equipped and transported...