Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnson or Mr. Woodring. Somewhat musty ammunition for the first shot was supplied by Secretary Woodring himself. At a Cabinet meeting he brought to Mr. Roosevelt's attention a book which appeared last August with an approving foreword by Louis Johnson. Adjusting Your Business to War is a handbook for industrialists, based on a now outmoded plan for mobilizing their resources in wartime. Mr. Roosevelt publicly remarked that no book on Army, Naval or kindred subjects bears the administration imprimatur, that 90% of the writers on such subjects do not know what they are writing about...
...difficult and dangerous position later on." So wrote Pundit Walter Lippmann last week. Having done so, he proceeded to review the arguments on both sides of the question.* Herewith is an outline (after Lippmann) of the arguments pro & con, a sort of debater's handbook...
...names of vitamins are their functions, for they have a vital effect on practically every organ in the body, are related to a score of diseases and deformities, ranging from diabetes to bow legs. As a guide to vitamin genealogy, the American Medical Association last week published a detailed handbook* compiled by top-notch U. S. vitamin chasers, giving the last word on vitamin chemistry, deficiency diseases, treatment. Interesting facts...
...Speakers Committee has charge of distributing volunteer speakers on various matters of interest. The Library Committee has charge of the special loan books. With its activities concentrated in the summer for the most part, the Missions Committee has charge of sending students to Labrador. Then there are also the Handbook Committee and the Information Committee, always ready to answer any questions about the University and about the surrounding towns
...organs were spinal columns. In decreasing order: abdomens, chests, heads. Exactly how casualties will line up in World War II, no one can yet predict, for new weapons cause new types of wounds. For every known type, army physicians are prepared. Many British surgeons carry an up-to-date handbook on war surgery, newly published by Drs. Philip Henry Mitchiner and Ernest Marshall Cowell...