Word: finally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Rightist arms in possession of three-fourths of all Spain, with Rightist Armies steadily advancing, most observers believed last week that Franco was headed for a final victory. In a war full of surprises, however, with the retreating Leftist soldiers contesting every square mile, few could predict that victory would be soon...
...Reluctantly but unanimously gave final approval to Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon's staggering budgetary decision to spend on the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force $1,750,000,000 in a single year. Sir John, ordinarily rated a cold fish and long the highest paid lawyer in England, told the House in a voice shaking with emotion: "Make no mistake-if we do not succeed and the World does not succeed in finding some way to end the folly of this everlasting expenditure on armaments, then, indeed the future we shall be preparing for our children...
...feel sure of China gaining a final victory. Japan will fail both in war and peace...
...California's Stanford University last week Biologist Dietrich Bodenstein displayed a winged insect which was half immature pupa, half mature butterfly. This monster was a by-product of Dr. Bodenstein's discovery of the agency which causes the final metamorphosis from pupa to adult. It is a growth substance generated in the head which reaches the tissues through the skin. It may be a hormone, but since hormones have not previously been found in insects it may also be an enzyme or some sort of nerve stimulus...
...Navy Departments could keep an eye on it. Both bills were passed, and from joint committee conferences the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 emerged with most of the Administration-backed features retained. But one last safeguard against complete White House domination of the authority had been stamped on the final draft by Pat McCarran. No member of the authority except its administrator may be dismissed except for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office...