Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubber, which will help Great Britain's balance of international payments. Result I was that the committee cautiously sanctioned an increase in production for the third quarter of 1937 from 85% to 90% of basic quotas favorable to British producers set in June 1934. Also established for the fourth quarter was a 90% quota. Even then it was doubtful whether producers can fill quotas estimated at 1,050,000 tons for 1937 because of lack of shipping facilities and labor shortages in the caoutchouc kingdoms...
President Conant, now in his fourth year as head of the University, celebrates his forty-fourth birthday today. The twenty-fifth president is planning a routine day with the usual office hours, and a dinner with members of his family is his program for tonight...
...February were down to 24,000 tons, barely a two-week's supply at the present rate of consumption (more than 50,000 tons per month). Nearly one-half of all U. S. zinc is used to galvanize iron and steel and another one-fourth goes into brass, which is a copper-zinc alloy. Storage batteries account for nearly one-third of all lead, with paint a poor second. In good times building takes 10%, cable coverings 20% of U. S. lead.- And all these big lead and zinc customers are either booming or slated to boom...
...room to room by a determined Harlem female admirer "coo-coo-cooing, just as if she were down home in the bushes." When a long-lost wife showed up, McKay eluded her by going to Russia, got in under a British Communist's endorsement as observer at the Fourth Congress of the Communist International...
...photographs are of recently excavated material; some are of architecture discovered as much as 40 years ago; but this is the first time that they have been on exhibit. The pottery and sculpture dates from the middle of the fourth century A.D. through several hundred years not definitely known...