Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Volunteer work by Boston doctors and dentists makes the Foundation's work possible, but since there is a lack of funds for this winter's work, many functions of the organization, such as nutrition classes, have been stopped...
...wheatlands in the Argentine, new cotton lands in Egypt . . . revolutions in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, the Argentine, Peru, Ecuador, Siam . . . repudiation of debts.. . . Declared President Hoover: "The United States did not bring this calamity on the world. . . . any party which exhibits such a lack of understanding should not be trusted with the fate of 25,000,000 American families...
Under the present Pews the Sun has been managed carefully. Lack of publicity more than anything else has kept it to the background in the industry's news. When new fields have been opened, Sun has gone quietly about acquiring leases. Its holdings in Venezuela come to hundreds of thousands of acres. In the East Texas field it owns about 7% of the total acreage. Eight tank steamers and seven motorships transport its oil from Texas to Marcus Hook, about 17 mi. southwest of Philadelphia. There Sun owns 525 acres upon which stands a large refinery...
...class includes all persons, Communist or not," continues Professor Hopper, "who are of primary importance to the state in the fulfillment of its economic plans. Its growth is indicative of the retreat on the part of the Soviet government from theoretical equality. The chief lack in Russia has been trained personnel to operate the enormous plant built under the forced pressure of the Five Year Plan. To encourage greater effort on the part of the proletariat to become trained, the Soviet government last year began widening the gulf between unskilled and skilled labor in terms of food allowance, clothing, housing...
...undergraduates. Yet to graduates who seldom return save for athletic contests, the band is a distinct attraction and often one of the few links to their own college days. Indeed, if the band were broken up, the loudest protest would come from the alumni. In addition to the lack of recognition by undergraduates, the members receive no subsidy from the university except for part of the expenses of their one outside trip. All others are defrayed from dues collected from the players themselves. However, the band continues to do good work. It was a fitting tribute to their excellence that...