Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Basic Policies. Thus in a half-month the new Board had traveled far. Before leaving Washington it had established fundamental policies...
...Current expenditures . . . of the Army and Navy constitute the largest military budget in the world and at a time when there is less real danger of extensive disturbance to peace than at any time in more than half a century...
...Wales attended a special luncheon after which he sampled with relish five separate and distinct brews, including a famed ale made by his gastronomically expert grandfather, Edward VII. Slightly flushed, Edward of Wales went with the directors later to the brew house, peered cautiously into a great copper vat half filled with a fermenting mass of brown syrupy malt, yellow flaky hops...
...women have removed superfluous hair from arms and legs. Last week was announced the formation of Neet, Inc., to carry on the business and 60,000 Neet shares were offered at $25. Neet, first hair-remover to be marketed in cream form, had a 1928 sale equal to half that of all other depilatories combined, and earned more than $200,000 in the six months ending June...
...York City exercised ingenuity last week in diphtheria prevention work. At the suggestion of its Diphtheria Prevention Commission (Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, president), Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne borrowed a half-dozen trucks from the street cleaning department, cleaned them, placarded them with warnings against diphtheria, and advice to use toxin-antitoxins. Aboard each car he loaded a doctor, two nurses and a refrigerator full of toxin-antitoxin. Then these "healthmobiles" rolled forth among the city's millions like itinerant waffle carts. Spectacular, convenient, they "sold" the idea of preparing in July for winter's diphtheria, administered...