Word: hastening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the undistributed Public Domain the land in Nevada and Arizona on which the dam will rest.* Settlement will have to be made later for upstream private property to be inundated by the new lake. Most interesting to engineers in the construction will be an experiment to hasten the cooling process of concrete by means of a special ammonia refrigerator plant from which ice water will be piped through the 7,000,000-ton mass...
...their Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley had lunched in Washington with Oscar De Priest, Negro Congressman. Last week Mayor Walmsley, home from the capital, announced: "As I am just as passionate an adherent to the cause of white supremacy as it is possible for any human being to be, I hasten to give the true facts to my people in New Orleans...
...money from utilitarian crockery, is proudest of the delicate porcelain statuettes which his factories mould from designs by Germany's best known sculptors. Months ago Rosenthal managers pointed out a curious fact: the company has branch offices in Berlin, London, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Chicago, New York. U. S. Citizens hasten to buy Rosenthal figures in all the European branches, will not buy them in their own country. Potter Rosenthal admires the U. S. The Wanderjahr to which every well-to-do German youth feels entitled, Potter Rosenthal spent on the western plains in 1874 as "ein wirklicher Cowboy." Through...
Largely upon the state of trade between the U. S. and Latin America depends the prosperity of Pan American Airways, Inc. Last year the volume of that trade fell off 29.46% from the $2,080,000,000 total of 1929. To "help hasten a revival, Pan American last week provisionally slashed fares by an average of 30%-reductions ranging from 8% to 42%. Immediate objective is to coax U.S. traveling salesmen to fly into South America, also to stimulate tourist travel in the Carib bean. Some reductions: Miami-Rio de Janeiro, from $763 to $603; Miami-Cristobal, C. Z., from...
...less so than syphilis; 6) cleanliness and general hygiene prevent leprosy's spread; 7) lepers' children are not born leprous, but catch the disease when very young, and hence the desirability of providing for these untainted ones; 8) leprosy is being cured; 9) money is needed to hasten cures, to further research, and to care for segregated lepers; 10) the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy (Perry Burgess, president), which organized last week's cruise, needs such money for the work in the Philippines. For its effect on morale the cruising experts advised Society...