Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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An agrarian economic order is inflexible; while the quantity of its produce is capriciously flexible with the whims of nature. There is no accurate way of forecasting over-production until the seed is long sown. And if the disaster could be foreseen, farmers have no means of effective and beneficial...
Premier Briand made it evident last week that he considers the program of taxation put forward by his friend, Finance Minister Doumer, superior in every way to that formulated by the Finance Committee of the Chamber at the behest of M. Herriot, leader of Le Cartel des Gauches. At the...
The work of the Red Cross in peace times consists of aiding disabled veterans of the World War and sending immediate relief in cases of disaster or emergency. During the last year vital aid was given in 90 catastrophes ranging from tornado and fire to mine explosion and earthquake. The...
Lieutenant Thomas spoke of his position in regard to flying in dirigibles. "Dirigible flying," he declared, "is just like riding a horse to me. When I try to make the horse go one way he may or may not. That depends on what he wants to do. I think that...
Throughout Central and Northwestern Europe the most disastrous floods of recent times swept away numberless villages and inundated portions of almost every city located near a river of any consequence. Ironically enough the cause of this international disaster was a period of warm rains and almost balmy weather which set...