Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johns Hopkins in 1933. His home is nine rooms in a large apartment building on Connecticut Avenue. Unless he borrows his wife's 1931 La Salle, he strolls to his office about 11 o'clock each morning. In the long corridors of the Senate Office Building his door can be identified by several Poland Water bottles on its threshold. He drinks four quarts of this a day, no tea, no coffee and, for the last 50 years, no alcohol. His office is staffed entirely with Idahoans. He spends an hour at his correspondence before going to the Senate...
...treaties ever served general maintenance of the Peace of the World better than the Five-Power Washington Treaty (which ended naval building races for 15 years with its 5-5-3 ratio) and the Nine-Power Washington Treaty (which operated for a decade to keep the "Open Door" for of a China decade ajar to and restrain the the aggressive proclivities of Japan). Last week, with these treaties about to expire, the London Naval Conference had whipped another into shape to be signed this week at St. James's Palace. Appropriate speeches were to be made by President Roosevelt...
...London Naval Treaty does not fix any naval ratio among the Great Powers, does not limit the total tonnage or number of effectives of any navy, has no concern with the peace of Eastern Asia and provides no wedge for the Open Door of China which Japan is now fast closing. Those four safeguards to the Peace of the World have definitely been allowed to lapse...
...prices - the basing point system of quotations. This system is a modification of the old "Pittsburgh Plus" plan. Carefully nurtured by U.S. Steel's late Elbert Gary, Pittsburgh Plus worked on the simple principle of charging every buyer the price of steel in Pittsburgh, plus freight to his door, regardless of where the steel was made. Thus in one classic example soon after the War, when the Pittsburgh price was $40 per ton, a Chicago concern was paying $47.60 for steel made by its next door neighbor. The additional $7.60 represented freight charges on a ton of steel from...
...leader of the National Geographical Society's Yukon Expedition which made the first crossing of the great Saint Elias Rauge, and succeeded in erasing from the map one of the last spots of unexplored territory on the continent of North America. Tickets may be obtained at the door...