Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before announcement of the franc's devaluation, attention was called to this danger when Secretary Morgenthau made public a political letter he had received from Senator Arthur Vandenberg who wrote: "If we have anything like $4.000,000,000 on instant foreign call, our financial structure and our price structure rest to a considerable extent on foreign judgment or caprice...
...between progress and tradition which has permitted her to transform all her institutions while remaining faithful to herself? Is it not thanks to democracy that the United States has been able to bring about a prodigious economic renewal in a few years without compromising legal order for a single instant, without going outside the framework of the Constitution elaborated just after the War of Independence by American disciples of Montesquieu and Rousseau? "No, democracy does not emerge condemned by the long trial waged against it! It is justified by proof as by reason. The debt that humanity has contracted toward...
Last week Dr. Benjamin Ulanski of Philadelphia told the American Congress of Physical Therapy that a certain kind of high-frequency current gave "instant relief" to most of his neuralgia patients. Said he: ". . . We have been so impressed with the almost instant relief and the uniformity of results obtained that we feel this method of treatment warrants a preliminary report to stimulate further investigation. However, we are unable, at the present time, to state on what scientific basis this treatment rests. Several physiological processes have come to mind, and it is our purpose to pursue this subject further with...
...last week had apparently convinced Mr. Brady that Mr. Houston was wrong. What this news indicates is nothing less than a boom in the railroad equipment industry. The operating income of Class 1 U. S. railroads during the first seven months of 1936 jumped 26% over 1935. The instant use to which a large part of this income was put was precisely what equipment makers had expected. During the first half of 1936 U. S. railroads ordered more freight cars and more steam locomotives than during the entire twelve months of any year since 1930. Orders for the six months...
...speedily reconstructed the accident. For some unknown reason, the pilot had apparently decided to return to the airport, banked sharply to the left at full speed when too near the ground. In the maneuver, the wingtip caught in a ditch, tripped the plane into a cartwheel. At the last instant, the pilot cut the switch, prevented fire. The retracted position of the landing gear showed that he was not attempting to land...