Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after this incident Secretary of Commerce Hoover issued an exhortation to automobile users, garage men, et al., to save tires, declaring that, without decreasing the use of automobiles, by patching and proper use of tires it would be possible to decrease the U. S. consumption of rubber 25% and partly protect the country from a loss of $700,000,000 a year in excess profits being taken by foreign rubber producers...
...Imperator et Rex, was pleased to accept the responsibilities of authorship for an address which read in part as follows...
MOSUL. The vexed question of whether the Republic of Turkey or the British-protected Kingdom of Irak shall hold sway over the oil fields and Christians in the Vilayet of Mosul (TIME, Dec. 31 et ante) was illuminated early in the week by the report of the Esthonian General Laidoner, sent by the League to investigate British charges against the Turks (TIME...
Operations amid the rain-soaked sloughs of Riffland (TIME, Nov. 16 et ante) were featured recently by the surrender of 800 tribal families to the French, in the region of Ouezzan, northwest of Fez. French communiques stated that the power of Abd-el-Krim, dauntless Riffian leader, is rapidly waning, as the Semadjas and other powerful tribes are submitting to the French. In the New Republic, U. S. weekly review, Poet Witter Bynner* wrote as follows...
Postponement. The Extraterritoriality Conference of the nine Powers (signatories to the Chinese treaties negotiated at President Harding's famed "Washington Disarmament Conference") was indefinitely postponed because of the extremely chaotic political situation now existing in China (TIME, Dec. 21, et ante). The conferees were to have assembled at Peking last week, where the Nine-Power Chinese Customs Conference is at present marking time owing to the impotence of "the Peking Gov- ernment of China," with which both conferences expected to deal...