Word: injection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Hull, after fresh talks with President Roosevelt, tried to inject an idea that the Conference should grapple with "price levels, credit policy, innumerable prohibitions and restrictions strangling mutually profitable trade transactions, retaliation and countless other war-breeding trade practices and methods." The steering committee, cold to this proposal, began to discuss adjourning the Conference on July 26 "for at least two months" but were halted by a fresh emotional plea from Mr. Hull. "I do not see," cried he to correspondents, "how the Conference statesmen can go home to their starving people and admit they have failed to achieve...
...heavy buying ceased in August when its easy money policy failed to make headway against deflation. Under the new inflation law the system may buy up to $3,000,000,000 more of "governments." Last week's small start, Secretary of the Treasury Woodin explained, was simply "to inject life into the market...
...keep a healthy dog from ever having distemper it is now necessary only to inject in it (preferably at the age of three months) two doses of Laidlaw-Dunkin vaccine, followed fortnight later by a dose of living virus. Preferred by some dog-owners because it involves only one trip to the veterinarian is a simultaneous inoculation with serum and virus. Theoretically sound, the practical worth of the simultaneous method has not yet been established. To cure sick dogs, an injection of serum during the early stages of the disease has proven effective...
...University's commencement crowd, he declared: "I believe we are on the threshold of a fundamental change in our popular economic thought, that in the future we are going to think less about the producer and more about the consumer. Do what we may have to do to inject life into our ailing economic order, we cannot make it endure for long unless we can bring about a wiser, more equitable distribution of the national income. . . . The country demands bold persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit...
Several days before the execution last week the sensational press tried to inject into it some of the epic quality of the capture. Notably energetic was Hearst's evening Journal. It tried to engineer a last-minute visit of Helen Walsh, the girl friend, to the death house; it assigned seven reporters and photographers to the story and ballyhooed it with a radio broadcast by the city editor. Other newsmen at the prison called the proceedings ''The Journal's execution...