Word: indirectness
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...fact that the Air Service had so much preliminary work to do in surveying the routes, depositing fuel and supplies all over the globe and generally carrying out a gigantic task in organization. Of course, Uncle Sam had to dig much deeper into his pocket in reality. Indirect expenses, such as the cost of fuel burned by destroyers in the Pacific, by Coast Guard cutters in Alaskan waters, by scout cruisers and destroyers in the North Atlantic, were borne by the Navy, not the Air Service-but the taxpayer paid for them nevertheless...
...year previous, and 9½ billion dollars in 1921-22. It suggested that cooperative marketing might disappoint those who have very great hopes of it, and expressed the opinion that, in aiding the movement, the Government's assistance would be of most value if confined to the indirect services of advice and information. The farmers must be left in complete control of their cooperative enterprises...
Liberal. A revolt within the Liberal Party was incepted when Captain W. Wedgwood Benn, M. P. for Leith, wrote to a prominent Liberal newspaper: "I cannot acknowledge in any way, direct or indirect, Mr. Lloyd George as my leader in the House of Commons . . . The vital fault is want of trust. The people have no confidence, and rightly so, in Mr. Lloyd George...
...must, if he has read the CRIMSON in the past five years, have known of various improvements that this period has brought to the Lampoon. A very stable financial situation is but an indirect, yet nevertheless very certain indication of solid effort, both literary and business. A scholarship for study abroad is not offered for dillettantism by the "select club." It is the award of an earnest society which hopes to improve the following technique of its most deserving member...
...sense. We want, my friends, to offer to the American people, first of all, common justice. (Applause). We want it in our legislation, and we declare that a tariff law which takes from one man in order to enrich another, which imposes upon the people of this country an indirect burden in the form of revenue derived by the Government is, in its nature, inherently unjust and must be modified. (Applause...