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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...divided the country into 14 districts over each of which will be placed a head to survey economic resources, the capacity of manufacturers to turn out war supplies, the quantity of necessary raw materials obtainable, etc. At the Capital specifications for 700,000 articles needed by our military forces have been prepared. Standard forms of contracts, and an efficient cost accounting system for handling war work are under preparation...
...case of war. Said Mr. Davis: "The final goal of this planning work-which, of course, can never be reached-would be that, on receipt of a telegram from my office, every manufacturer who is to do war work would get out his production schedules, plans, specifications, contracts, etc., and immediately start work...
...expected to overthrow the Monarchy, but he opposed the people and advocated a revision of the Constitution. He worked in harmony with King George I in reorganizing public instruction, justice, police, finance, etc. His part in Balkan scheming is by now part of history. Judged ethically it may not be to his credit, but from results his actions were certainly justified; for in the two Balkan Wars he doubled the territory of Greece. After King George was succeeded by his son Constantine, Venizelos' power dwindled, because he found himself in direct opposition to the pro-German royal policies...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Because I succeeded where all others had failed in discovering the Polynesian fatuliva with its square eggs, the red-pepper bird which flies upside down to keep its stomach cool, the hard-boiled eggplant of Gobi, etc., I was chosen this morning to discover the undiscoverable and unscrew the inscrutable in the Teapot scandal...
John V. A. Weaver, the spry author of In American, Finders, etc., has now vanished to Florida where, having encased his slender form in a bathing suit, he is doubtless polishing the surface of his play?a play written, I hear, in "the American language...